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Job 20:17
Job 20:17
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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Job 20 — OverviewJob 20 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleOne would have thought that such an excellent confession of faith as
Job made, in the close of the foregoing chapter, would satisfy his
friends, or at least mollify them; but they do not seem to have taken
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I. AN IMPETUOUS ORATOR PERTURBED. Threatened with Divine vengeance, Zophar advances to the combat in hopes of utterly confounding his antagonist. His appearance,…