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Job 7:12

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

and enclosing and hedging him all around with afflictions, so that he could not get out of the world as he desired; or, "O thou observer of men" , of their words, ways, works, and actions, and who kept such a strict eye upon him while wrestling with him, and therefore what could he do?

or, "O thou Saviour of men" , by whom only I can be saved from the sins I have been and am daily guilty of:why hast thou set me as a mark against thee?

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