OLD TESTAMENT

Job 9:29

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I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

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Verse 29. Vain. Why have I endeavoured to repress my grief in silence? God does not forbid us to complain, but only to murmur. Calmet.—Septuagint “Since I am wicked, why did I not die?” Bible.—Should a wretch be even suffered to live” Saint John Chrysostom

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