For what: Job 14:21; Ecclesiastes 2:18-19; Luke 16:27-28
the number: Job 14:5; Psalms 55:23, Psalms 102:24
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Job 21:21
Job 21:21
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I. THE SPIRIT OF JOB'S REPLY.
1. Intense earnestness. Indicated by the respectful invitation addressed to his friends to attend to his discourse, the nervous reduplication of the…