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Job 9:17

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For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

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Verse 17. Without cause. That is, without my knowing the cause; or without any crime of mine. Challoner.—To argue from my afflictions, that I am a criminal, is unjust. Calmet. 2:3.

“Notions mistaken, reasonings ill apply’d,

And sophisms that conclude on either side.” Pope, Pleasures, and so forth

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