Lux Domini
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

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Interpretation

Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hope of his return to a prosperous estate; he here shows that those do not go wisely about the work of comforting the afflicted, who fetch their comforts from the possibility of recovery in this world.

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This thought runs through Job 17:14-16.