OLD TESTAMENT

Job 22:12

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“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

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Verse 12. Stars: and of course, that his Providence regardeth not human affairs. Calmet.—When an infidel observed, “I think the gods are too great to want my adoration,” Socrates well replied, “The greater they appear to thee, the more oughtest thou to treat them with respect and honour.” Xenophon, Memor.

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