whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock; either to have compared them with the dogs that kept his flock from the wolves, having some good qualities in them which they had not; for what more loving or faithful to their masters, or more vigilant and watchful of their affairs?
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Job 19:18
Job 19:18
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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