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- Job
- Chapter 21
- Verse 5
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Gill's Exposition
Even when I remember,.... Either the iniquities of his youth he was made to possess; or his former state of outward happiness and prosperity he had enjoyed, and reviewed his present miserable case and…
Barnes' Notes
Mark me - Margin, “look unto.” Literally, “Look upon me. That is, attentively look on me, on my sufferings, on my disease, and my losses. See if I am a proper object of repreach and mockery - see if I…
Job here recommends himself, both his case and his discourse, both what he suffered and what he said, to the compassionate consideration of his friends. 1. That which he entreats of them is very fair,…
Cambridge Bible
The mystery which he will lay before them if they will mark it will strike them dumb. To "lay the hand upon the mouth" is a gesture of awe-struck silence, cf. ch. Job 40:4.
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