WHY... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_. App-6. TIMES. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct) for the events which take place in them. THE ALMIGHTY. Hebrew Shaddai. App-4. SEE. perceive, or understand. DAYS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for His doings in them: e.g... [ Continue Reading ]
SOME: i.e. the lawless men, whose various crimes are detailed in the following verses. LANDMARKS. Compare Deuteronomy 19:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE... FOR. PLEDGE. Compare Job 24:9 and Deuteronomy 24:6; Deuteronomy 24:17; Amos 2:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY: [WHILE OTHERS]. See translation below. POOR. wretched.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_. App-6. CHILDREN. offspring.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERY ONE. Figure of speech _Ellipsis_. App-6. HIS CORN. Hebrew. _belilo_. But if divided thus, _beli lo_, it means "not his own". The word "corn" must be supplied as an _Ellipsis_ of the accusative case. See translation below. THE WICKED. a lawless one. Hebrew. _rasha'_. App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
NAKED. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Whole), App-6, for scantily clad, or threadbare.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew. _methim_. App-14. CITY. The Septuagint adds "and houses". GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. There is. pause between Job 24:12 and Job 24:13. "They" is emphatic. These. Note the three stages of the 1awless: (1) avoiding the light (Job 24:16; John 3:20); (2) consequent ignorance; (3) final result.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. and [then again].... [ Continue Reading ]
TWILIGHT. darkness.. Homonym. See notes on 1 Samuel 30:17; 2 Kings 7:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY: i.e. burglars.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF ONE KNOW THEM. See translation below.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read "and he". BEHOLDETH. returneth. THE. to the.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GRAVE. Hebrew Sheol. App-35. SINNED. Hebrew. _chata'_. App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
WICKEDNESS. Hebrew. _'aval_. App-44. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6, for the wicked man.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE EVIL ENTREATETH. See translation below.... [ Continue Reading ]