travaileth: Romans 8:22; Ecclesiastes 9:3
the number: Psalms 90:3-4, Psalms 90:12; Luke 12:19-21; James 5:1-6
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Job 15:20
Job 15:20
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his own thesis, upon which he built his censure of Job. His opinion is
that those who are wicked are certainly miserable, whence he would…Job 15:20Job 15:20 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThe wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days,.... Either to commit iniquity, which he is at great pains to do, and even to weariness; and, agreeably to the metaphor used, he conceives it in his heart, he travails…Job 15:20Job 15:20 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible"all the days of Esau the ungodly, they expected that he would have repented, but he repented not.''