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Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Job 40:4

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Job40:4

4. I am (too) vile (to reply). It is a very different thing to vindicate ourselves before God, from what it is before men. Job could do the latter, not the former.

lay ... hand ... upon ... mouth--I have no plea to offer (Job 21:5; Jud 18:19).

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