OLD TESTAMENT

Job 1:22

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In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

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Verse 22. By his lips, is not in Hebrew but occurs Calmet. 2:10.—God. Much less did he blaspheme, as satan had said, verse 11. He did not consider all as the effect of chance, or like a mere philosopher. His thoughts were regulated by religion and the fear of God. Calmet.—The virtue of Job was so much the more wonderful, as he lived among the wicked. Saint Gregory He bore patiently with the loss of all things: and English Catholics have often imitated him. Worthington.—He might well record his own good actions, the gifts of God, being moved by divine inspiration, like Moses, and so forth Saint Gregory

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