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Job 4:3

Job 4:3

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

but miserable comforters of Job were Bildad and his friends:[how] savest thou the arm [that hath] no strength? the sense is the same as before, that he had done nothing to relieve Job in his bodily or soul distresses, and save him out of them; nor had contributed in the least towards his support under them; and be it that he was as weak in his intellectuals as he and his friends thought him to be, and had undertaken a cause which he had not strength of argument to defend; yet, what had he done to convince him of his mistake, and save him from the error of his way?

trze hm "cui auxiliatis es", Pagninus, Montanus; so Tigurine version. hyvwt "essentiam", Montanus. "Qua nam re adjuvisti?" Vatablus; "quid auxiliatus es?"

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