21 Although the framework of his bones was now destroyed, the high-minded and Abrahamic youth didn’t groan. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 9:21
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4 Maccabees 6:6–8
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Job 20:10–12
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4 Maccabees 9:12–14
12 When they had labored hard without effect in scourging him, they hurled him on the wheel. (WEB) 13 The noble youth, extended upon this, became dislocated. (WEB) 14 With every member disjointed, he denounced the tyrant, saying, (WEB)
2 Maccabees 3:28–30
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2 Maccabees 7:11–13
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Job 33:20–22
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4 Maccabees 8:25–27
25 Why has such angry zeal taken root in us, and such fatal obstinacy approved itself to us, when we might live unmolested by the king?” (WEB) 26 But the young men didn’t say or think anything of this kind when about to be tortured. (WEB) 27 For they were well aware of the sufferin… (WEB)
Lamentations 3:3–5
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