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Job 31:34

Job 31:34

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

Did I fear a great multitude?.... No, they did not deter him from confessing his sin in the most public manner, when sensible or convicted of it, and when such a public acknowledgment was necessary:or did the contempt of families terrify me?

no, the contempt he might suppose he should be had in by some families that knew him, and he was well acquainted with, did not terrify him from making a free and ingenuous confession of his sins:that I kept silence; or "did I keep silence",[and] went not out of the door?

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