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Job 15:34

Job 15:34

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

which passage Job may have respect unto; or rather his family, his children, which were taken away from him: the Jews say , ten persons in any place make a congregation; this was just the number of Job's children, seven sons and three daughters; or it may be he may have respect to his friends, that came to visit him, who were moved and stupefied as it were at the sight of him and his afflictions, as the word is by some translated, and who were alienated from him; were not friendly to him, nor administered to him any comfort; so that they were as if he had none, or worse.

"Dolor meus", V. L. so Aben Ezra & Cocceius. ytde "meam congregationem", Pagninus; "conventum meum", Montanus, Bolducius. Vid. Drusium in loc.

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