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Job 9:20

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

there are others, who are in a sense unblamable in their walk and conversation; that is, are not guilty of any notorious crime, but exercise a conscience void of offence towards God and man, walk in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless; and yet this is no "gain" to God; for what does such a man give to him?

or what does he receive of his hands?

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