which can never be, where it once is, it being the great security against a final and total apostasy from God, Jer 32:40; or that what he had was merely hypocritical, like that which is taught by the precept of men, was only in appearance, and not in reality, as his conduct now showed; for had he had the true fear of God before his eyes, and on his heart, he could never have cursed the day of his birth, nor arraigned the providence of God, and charged him with injustice, as he supposed he did; whereby his fear, his piety, his religion he had professed, appeared to be just nothing at all : it follows,thy confidence; that is, in God; for Job professed none in any other, in any creature or creature enjoyment
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Job 15:4
Job 15:4
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