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Job 34:33

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33

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

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Verse 33. It, my iniquity. Menochius.—Will God make thee accountable for it? Bible.—Yea, if thou keep silence, ( Calmet.) thou wilt seem to connive at it. Bible.—He wishes to engage Job to speak. Hebrew may be translated many ways. Calmet.—Prot. “Should it be according to thy mind? He will recompense it whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I. Therefore speak what thou knowest.” Bible.

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