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Job 31:24

The Pulpit Commentary on Job 31:24

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

If I have made gold my hope. This is a sin with which the patriarch had not been directly charged. But it had been more or less insinuated (see ; , , ; , etc.

). He may also, perhaps, have felt some inclination to it. Or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence.

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