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Job 9:16

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If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

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Verse 16. Voice. So much am I beneath his notice. How unjust were the aspersions of Job’s friends, who accused him of presumption and blasphemy! Calmet.—No one ever spoke with greater humility ( Bible.) and respect of God’s absolute dominion. Calmet.—He will attribute nothing to his own prayers, as he is still in the dark. Menochius.

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