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Job 34:23

Job 34:23

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

Some take the sense of the words to be this, in answer to the above question, "will he plead against me with his great power?" let him do it, "only let him not set upon me" , in an hostile way, and then I do not decline entering the debate with him; which expresses great boldness and confidence, and even too much, and must be reckoned among the unbecoming expressions Job was afterwards convinced of; but this he utters in his passion, in order the more clearly to show, and the more strongly to assert, his innocence.

yb Mvy "ipse apponeret ad me animum", Junius & Tremellius; so Piscator, Cocceius, & Aben Ezra.

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