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Job 18:12

Job 18:12

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

[God] distributeth sorrows in his anger; or rather, "how oft doth he distribute sorrows in his anger?" but seldom; he is angry with the wicked every day, and reserves wrath for them, and many sorrows shall be to them, but not for the present; those are future, and even such as of a woman in travail, as the word used signifies, and which shall come upon them suddenly and certainly, and there will be no avoiding them; see ; but does God frequently distribute or portion out sorrows to them now?

he does not; they have their portion of good things in this life; does he usually give them sorrow of heart, his curse unto them?

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