Lux Domini
The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

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Interpretation

Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death would be dreadful. Job undertook to set this matter in a true light.

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This thought runs through Job 27:18-20.