Or they have no regard to their last change by death; and are not afraid of that, as Jarchi interprets it; they put away this evil day far from them; think nothing about it, as if it would never be, and as if they had made an agreement with it that this change should never come upon them
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Job 10:17
Job 10:17
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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