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Job 36:11

The Pulpit Commentary on Job 36:11

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

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures (comp. ; ; ). Under the old covenant, prosperity was promised to the righteous, and even to the repentant, frequently, and in the most definite terms.

Under the new, when any such promise is made, it is carefully guarded (); while in many passages the promise is of an opposite character—the righteous are told to expect tribulations and persecutions (; ; : ; , , etc.

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