OLD TESTAMENT

Job 34:5

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For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right.

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Verse 5. Judgment. Calmet. 27:2. Job had used this expression, but only to intimate that strict justice did not take place, as he thought his faults had not deserved so severe a chastisement. He did not pretend that God was unjust, or that he was quite blameless; and he had so explicitly declared his sentiments, that Eliu could not well be ignorant of them. Calmet.

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