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Job 22:7

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You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

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Verse 7. Water. Job’s disposition was the reverse. Calmet. 29:15. Such inhumanity would hardly be conceived possible among us. But he Idumeans were guilty of it; (Numbers 20:18. Isaiah 21:14) and if it had not been probable, Eliphaz would not have dared to speak thus. Calmet.

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