The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments: Under the Editorship of Samuel Rolles Driver, Alfred Plummer and Charles Augustus Briggs, Volume 14, Part 1C. Scribner's sons, 1921 |
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Page v
... less than my best to dis- charge it , would have been an ill return for all that I had long owed to the friendship and scholarship of Dr. Driver . The time involved has even exceeded my expectations , partly because what remained to be ...
... less than my best to dis- charge it , would have been an ill return for all that I had long owed to the friendship and scholarship of Dr. Driver . The time involved has even exceeded my expectations , partly because what remained to be ...
Page vi
... less of the translation than this might seem to imply the translation consisted of a text of the RV . with the very extensive alterations placed on the margin ; occasionally a choice between one or two renderings was left open for final ...
... less of the translation than this might seem to imply the translation consisted of a text of the RV . with the very extensive alterations placed on the margin ; occasionally a choice between one or two renderings was left open for final ...
Page xx
... less so for his character , which was beyond reproach from either God or man . single day he was stripped of all his possessions and of all his children , and shortly afterwards smitten with a fell disease . The occasion of this tragic ...
... less so for his character , which was beyond reproach from either God or man . single day he was stripped of all his possessions and of all his children , and shortly afterwards smitten with a fell disease . The occasion of this tragic ...
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... less certain , the evidence afforded by ( 1 ) names and terms ( §§ 9-13 ) , ( 2 ) tradition ( § 14 ) , and ( 3 ) the nature of the country implied in the story ( 15 ) being inconclusive and conflicting . § 9. ( 1 ) Names and terms ...
... less certain , the evidence afforded by ( 1 ) names and terms ( §§ 9-13 ) , ( 2 ) tradition ( § 14 ) , and ( 3 ) the nature of the country implied in the story ( 15 ) being inconclusive and conflicting . § 9. ( 1 ) Names and terms ...
Page xxxi
... less -in all , probably somewhat more or less than a half . The poem is mostly in 4 : 4 rhythm ( Job is in 3 : 3 : see § 52 ) . On the history , restoration and interpretation of the poem , see M. Jastrow , Rel . Bab . u . Assyr . ii ...
... less -in all , probably somewhat more or less than a half . The poem is mostly in 4 : 4 rhythm ( Job is in 3 : 3 : see § 52 ) . On the history , restoration and interpretation of the poem , see M. Jastrow , Rel . Bab . u . Assyr . ii ...
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Almighty animal answer appears Aramaic assertion Barachel beasts Behold Bildad Book of Job calamity cited clause crocodile darkness death Dialogue distich doth dust earth Edom elephantiasis Elihu Eliphaz emendation Epilogue Esharra expressed favour fear follows give God's hand hast hath Hauran heaven Hebrew Hiob hippopotamus implied iniquity innocence interpolation interpretation Job's leviathan light man's meaning mouth naturally omits original ostrich Palestine parallel passage Peake perhaps phil phrase Pleiades present probably Prologue prosperity question Rahab reference rendered righteous Satan sense Sheol sins Sophar speak speech of Yahweh sufferings suggests term thee theory thine thou thought three friends Tiamat tion translation tristichs unrighteous unto wicked wilt wisdom womb words writer
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Page 20 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Page 169 - My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. 21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Page 226 - I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Page 242 - When he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder, then did he see it and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page 201 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Page 17 - While he was yet speaking, therecame also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house : and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Page 283 - The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Page 240 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls, for the price of wisdom is above rubies. The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
Page 54 - He taketh the wise in their own craftiness : and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Page 220 - He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, And hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ; And the cloud is not rent under them.