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Job 32:7

Job 32:7

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

So it follows:in that ye have not spoken of me [the thing which is] right, like my servant Job; and if by neglect of his advice, which would have been another instance of their folly, they had provoked the Lord to deal with them as their sin deserved, it must have gone hard with them.

The Targum is,"lest I should do with you "what would be" a reproach''(or disgrace); would put them to shame, and make them appear ignominious to men; as by stripping them of their substance and honour, and reducing them to the condition Job was in.

"----Septem mactare juvencos", &c. Virgil. Aeneid. 6. v.

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