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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text.Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders and...

therefore place it separately from the verses before and after it. However, in BHS, an edition of the printed Hebrew Bible, verses 7–9 are printed together as a unit. Commentators often refer to verse 7 as the “motto” of the book. A motto in a book is a sentence or phrase adopted as representing the character and substance of the book as a whole. The thought expressed in verse 7 appears also in 9:10 and 15:33. See also Psa 111:10 and Job 28:28. Not only is this verse the “motto” of the book which
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