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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 17:8

Astonied — At the depth and mysteriousness of God's judgments, which fall on innocent men, while the worst of men prosper. Yet — Notwithstanding all these sufferings of good men, and the astonishment which they cause, he shall the more zealously oppose those hypocrites, who make these strange providences of God an objection to religion.

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