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Job 21:4

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As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

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Verse 4. Troubled. Hebrew “Why is not my spirit shortened” by death, if your assertion be true? ( Bible.) or why may I not be “troubled,” since I have to deal, not with an enlightened judge, but with men who are under the greatest prejudices? Calmet.—I seem to you to dispute against God. Have I not then reason to tremble? verse 6. Bible.—Though he disputed with men, it was concerning Providence and eternal things. Worthington.

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