OLD TESTAMENT

Job 12:6

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The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

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Verse 6. Abound. Hebrew “are at peace.” Calmet.—The prosperity of the wicked is therefore no proof that they are pleasing to him. Bible.—All nature testifies that God exercises a sovereign dominion over his works. He may therefore cause the just to suffer, though they be guiltless. This is one of Job’s grand maxims. Calmet.

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