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Selected Verse: Job 5:11 - King James

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Job 5:11 King James To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Connected with Job 5:9. His "unsearchable" dealings are with a view to raise the humble and abase the proud (Luk 1:52). Therefore Job ought to turn humbly to Him.
 
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52 He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
52 He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.