Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said.
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Job 8:20
Job 8:20
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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in a few words, setting before Job life and death, the blessing and the
curse, assuring him that as he was so he should fare, and therefore…Job 8:20Job 8:20 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeGod: Job 4:7, Job 9:22; Psalms 37:24, Psalms 37:37, Psalms 94:14
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