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Job 13:13

Job 13:13

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

though the phrase may be rendered, as it is sometimes, "within myself", see Ho 11:8; ; and then the sense may be, shall I leave my inward moan within myself, and no longer contain? I will give myself vent; and though I have been blamed for saying so much as I have, I will say yet more:I will speak in the bitterness of my soul: as one whose life is made bitter, against whom God had wrote and said bitter things, and had brought bitter afflictions upon him, which had occasioned bitter complaints in him, as well as he had been bitterly used by his friends; and amidst all this bitterness he is determined to speak out his mind freely and fully; or to speak "of the bitterness" of his soul, and declare, by words, what he in his mind and body endured.

yyxb yvpn hjqn "fastidit anima mea vitam meam", Beza, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. "Excisa est anima mea in vita mea", Pagninus, Vatablus; so Ben Gersom & Ben Melech. So Junius & Tremellius. yxyv "meditationem meam", Schindler, col.

1823. "my sighing", Broughton. yle "intra me". Vid. Noldium, p. 701.

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