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Job 13:22

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

now has nothing to say for himself;I will lay mine hand upon my mouth; impose silence upon himself, and as it were lay a restraint upon himself from speaking: it looks as if there were some workings in Job's heart; he thought he could say something, and make some reply, but durst not, for fear of offending yet more and more, and therefore curbed it in; see Ps 39:1.

ytlq "levis sum", Cocceius, Michaelis; "leviter locutus sum", V.

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