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Job 21:6
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4 “As for me, is my complaint against man?
And if it were, why should I not be impatient?
5 Look at me and be astonished;
aPut your hand over your mouth. 
6 Even when I remember I am terrified,
And trembling takes hold of my flesh.
7 aWhy do the wicked live and become old,
Yes, become mighty in power? 
8 Their descendants are established with them in their sight,
And their offspring before their eyes.
9 Their houses are safe from fear,
aNeither is1 the rod of God upon them. 
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Job 21:6

Even when I remember, I am afraid - I have an internal shuddering and horror when I recall the scenes through which I have passed. I am myself utterly overwhelmed at the magnitude of my own sufferings, and they are such as should excite commiseration in your hearts. Some, however, have connected this with the following verse, supposing the idea to be, that he was horror-stricken when he contemplated the prosperity of wicked people. But there seems to me to be no reason for this interpretation. His object is undoubtedly to show them that there was enough in his ease to awe them into silence; and he says, in order to show that, that the recollection of his sufferings perfectly overwhelmed "him," and filled him with horror. They who have passed through scenes of special danger, or of great bodily suffering, can easily sympathize with Job here. The very recollection will make the flesh tremble.




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