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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... night with weeping : The night with howling , the year with mourning ( cp . Job 78 % ) . The second tablet opens as follows : I attained to ( long ) life , I moved beyond the appointed time ; ( Wherever ) I turn , ( there is ) evil ...
... night with weeping : The night with howling , the year with mourning ( cp . Job 78 % ) . The second tablet opens as follows : I attained to ( long ) life , I moved beyond the appointed time ; ( Wherever ) I turn , ( there is ) evil ...
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In the middle of the night he lets me not breathe for a moment ( cp . Jb . 7131. 30 ) . Through tearings my joints are sundered , My limbs are undone . Upon my couch I passed the night like a bull , I was covered with my excrement like ...
In the middle of the night he lets me not breathe for a moment ( cp . Jb . 7131. 30 ) . Through tearings my joints are sundered , My limbs are undone . Upon my couch I passed the night like a bull , I was covered with my excrement like ...
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... night terrifying dreams and nightmares ( 714 n .; cp . 71 ) . There are also many allusions to intensity of pain and to groanings and cryings out ; and 715 is commonly taken to refer to the feeling of strangulation that is a symptom of ...
... night terrifying dreams and nightmares ( 714 n .; cp . 71 ) . There are also many allusions to intensity of pain and to groanings and cryings out ; and 715 is commonly taken to refer to the feeling of strangulation that is a symptom of ...
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... toss quantities ( see phil . n . ) of dust on their head in token of distress ( cp . Jos . 76 , 1 S. 412 , 2 S. 1319 , La . 210 , Ezk . 2730 ) . for seven days and seven nights : but none spoke II . 11-12 . ] 27 THE PROLOGUE.
... toss quantities ( see phil . n . ) of dust on their head in token of distress ( cp . Jos . 76 , 1 S. 412 , 2 S. 1319 , La . 210 , Ezk . 2730 ) . for seven days and seven nights : but none spoke II . 11-12 . ] 27 THE PROLOGUE.
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for seven days and seven nights : but none spoke a word to him , for they saw that the pain was very great . 13. For a whole week the friends show their sympathy by sharing with Job his seat on the ash - mound ; but , overwhelmed by the ...
for seven days and seven nights : but none spoke a word to him , for they saw that the pain was very great . 13. For a whole week the friends show their sympathy by sharing with Job his seat on the ash - mound ; but , overwhelmed by the ...
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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.