OLD TESTAMENT

Job 23:17

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Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

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Verse 17. Face. My afflictions have not yet taken away my life, as might have been expected. Bible.—I am less affected with my miseries, than with the dread of God’s presence, verse 15, 16. Calmet.

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