OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 24:18

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lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

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Verse 18. From. To punish thee. Calmet.—Thus will thy thirst of vengeance be disappointed. Bible.—The Hebrews believed that there was no evil, which was not caused by sin; and this was true in some sense. But still God often afflicts his servants, (verse 16,) as the whole book of Job tends to prove. Calmet.

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