OLD TESTAMENT

Job 23:9

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He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.

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Verse 9. Right, southward.—See. The southern part of the heavens, or the antarctic stars would not be discerned in Idumea. Calmet. 9:9. Calmet.—Job speaks in a human manner, as he was not ignorant of God’s immensity. Menochius.

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