The Pulpit Commentary on Job 29:24

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

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; rather, if I smiled on them. If, as a mark of favour, I smiled on any, they thought it such graciousness and condescension that they could scarcely believe it possible.

And the light of my countenance they cast not down. They never put me out of countenance, or made me sad and gloomy, by opposing my views and ranging themselves against me.

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