OLD TESTAMENT

Job 11:20

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But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

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Verse 20. Soul, because hope deferred causeth pain to the soul. Proverbs 13:12. Menochius.—Hebrew “their hope shall be the sorrow, or the breathing out of the soul.” Calmet.—Prot. “the giving up of the ghost.” Margin, “a puff of breath.” Calmet. 18:14. Bible.

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