20
Will it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
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Verse 20. He shall be swallowed up. All that man can say, when he speaks of God, is so little and inconsiderable in comparison with the subject, that man is lost, an das it were swallowed up in so immense an ocean. Challoner.—The man who should are to mention what I could reprehend in God’s works, would soon be overwhelmed with majesty. Calmet.—Alphonsus IX. king of Leon, (A.D. 1252) surnamed “the wise and the astronomer,” said “he could have given some good advice respecting the motions of the stars, if he had been consulted by God;” meaning to ridicule some vain systems of philosophers, then in vogue. Dict. 1774. Bible.
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