OLD TESTAMENT

Job 31:34

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because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—

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Verse 34. Have not. Hebrew “that I kept silence, not going out of doors” to defend the innocent. Bible.—Moses commands judges to do their duty without fear. Exodus 23:2. People in such situations ought to be uninfluenced by hatred, love, and so forth Cæsar says, justly, (in Sallust) “qui de rebus dubiis consultant, ab adio, amicitiâ, irá atque misericordia vacuos esse decet. Haud facilè animus verum providet, ubi illa officiunt.”

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