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Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Job 21:5

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible. Browse this work.

Job21:5

5. lay ... hand upon ... mouth--(Pr 30:32; Jud 18:19). So the heathen god of silence was pictured with his hand on his mouth. There was enough in Job's case to awe them into silence (Job 17:8).

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