Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 1:7
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Job1:7
7. And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan answered the LORD and said, From going to and fro in the Earth , and from walking up and down in it.
God being here represented as Judge, rightly begins with an enquiry, as the ground of his further proceedings, as he did Gen. 3. 9. and 4. 9.
Where by thy permission I range about, observing with great diligence all the Dispositions and Actions of Men, and working in them and among them as far as I have Liberty and Opportunity.
Marginal references: 1 Pet. 5. 8.
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