Job 9:17 (WEB)
For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
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“And when he says concerning the Lord, “For many bruises hath He inflicted upon me without a cause,” observe that his words are not, He hath inflicted none with a cause; but, “many without a cause.”” — editor's note: Job ix. 17.
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Job Was Not Without Sin. But let us see what Job has to say of himself, after God’s great testimony of his righteousness. “I know of a truth,” he says, “that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the…
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