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Mark Dunagan Commentaries

Job 2:12

"When they lifted up their eyes at. distance and did not recognize him": The disease that afflicted Job had ravaged and disfigured his physical appearance, so much so that his closest friends did not even recognize him. Compare with Isaiah 53:3. "They raised their voices and wept. And each of them tore his robe and they threw dust over their heads toward the sky": They immediately express their grief, and they were not ready for what they saw. They tore their robes of nobility, wailed, and threw dust in the air.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S THREE FRIENDS COME TO CONDOLE WITH HIM. The friends are Eastern princes like himself (LXX kings), hence live at a distance. They knew him not, because he was so disfigured. They threw dust upon...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND WHEN THEY LIFTED UP THEIR EYES AFAR OFF, AND KNEW HIM NOT, THEY LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE, AND WEPT; AND THEY RENT EVERY ONE HIS MANTLE, AND SPRINKLED DUST UPON THEIR HEADS TOWARD HEAVEN._ Toward he...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּשְׂא֨וּ אֶת ־עֵינֵיהֶ֤ם מֵ רָחֹוק֙ וְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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