OLD TESTAMENT

Job 5:21

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You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

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Verse 21. Scourge. Ecclus. (26:9 and 28:21) has the same expression. See Jam. 3:6. Calmet.—Calamity, from robbers, as the Hebrew shod, ( Bible.) intimates. The word is rendered destruction, vastitate, verse 22. Menochius.

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