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Job 5:11

Job 5:11

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

or rather the friends of Job compared to foul and troubled waters frozen over which cannot be so well discerned, or which were black through being frozen, and which describes the inward frame of their minds the foulness of their spirits the blackness of their hearts, though they outwardly appeared otherwise, as follows:[and] wherein the snow is hid; or "on whom the snow" falling, and lying on heaps, "hides" , or covers; so Job's friends, according to this account, were, though black within as a black frost yet white without as snow; they appeared, in their looks and words at first as candid, kind, and generous, but proved the reverse.

So Michaelis. glv Mlety wmyle "super quibus accumulatur nix", Beza, "tegit se, q. d.

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