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To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?
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Verse 4. Life. Septuagint also seem to understand this of God. Calmet.—Job does not blame his friends for undertaking to approve the ways of Providence, but for condemning himself (Saint John Chrysostom) rashly, ( Bible.) and, with an air of haughtiness, endeavouring to restrain him from pleading his cause before the divine tribunal. Menochius.—Hebrew “Whose spirit came from thee?” Prot. ( Bible.) Did I receive my life, or do I seek advice from thee? Calmet.—God stood in no need of Baldad’s wisdom ( Worthington.) no more than Job. Bible.
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