OLD TESTAMENT

Job 18:2

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“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

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Verse 2. Understand ye. Teach this man to comprehend what we say. He deigns not to address Job in person: but repeats most of his former remarks respecting the wicked, as if they were unquestionably applicable to Job. Calmet. 8. Calmet.—Hebrew “mark ye.” Septuagint “do thou attend.” Bible.—Baldad speaks to many who might be of Job’s opinion, as he was a figure of the Church, defending the common cause; while his friends, like heretics, speak both true and false things. Saint Gregory xiv. 1. Worthington.

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