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Am I using a semicolon correctly in this sentence?

"After this discourse the friends became unsympathetic towards him; pelting Job with accusations of sin."

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No.

Check this site to see what punctuation mark should be used here.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_commacomp.html
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