Job 9:1
ANSWERED. responded. See note on Job 4:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
ANSWERED. responded. See note on Job 4:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. This is the one great question of the book. MAN. mortal man. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14. GOD. Hebrew El. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILL. desire to.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. Compare 2 Chronicles 36:13.Isaiah 48:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY KNOW. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
WAVES OF THE SEA. The celebrated Mugah Codex (the earliest quoted in the _Massorah_ itself), App-30, reads "cloud": i.e. thick cloud.... [ Continue Reading ]
ARCTURUS. Hebrew. _'ash._. name still connected with "the Great Bear" (the more ancient name being "the greater sheepfold": Arab, _al naish,_ the assembled (as in. fold). See Job 38:31; Job 38:32, and App-12. ORION. Hebrew. _kesil._ Compare Job 38:31.Amos 5:8. A strong one, or the coming prince. Se... [ Continue Reading ]
LO. Figure of speech. _Asterismos_. App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech. _Asterismos_. App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew. _Eloah_. App-4. WITHDRAW. avert. HELPERS. confederates.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT ANSWER. not [dare to] answer.... [ Continue Reading ]
BREATH. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY SOUL. myself. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. LIFE. Hebrew. _chayai._... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WICKED. a lawless one. Hebrew. _rasha,_ App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
COVERETH: i.e. so that they cannot discern between right and wrong.... [ Continue Reading ]
POST. runner, or courier. Compare Esther 3:13; Esther 3:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
SWIFT SHIPS. ships of _ebeh._ Hence vessels of bulrush _(eb)_. vessels of desire _('abeh),_ i.e. desiring to reach their haven; vessels of enmity _('eybah),_ i.e. pirate vessels; or vessels of the Nile _('abai,_ Abyssinian for Nile). Others, vessels of Joppa. Perhaps the last is best.... [ Continue Reading ]
COMPLAINT. complaining.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHY... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEVER SO CLEAN. clean with soap.... [ Continue Reading ]
ABHOR. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER IS THERE. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read "Oh that there were". ANY DAYSMAN. any umpire, arbiter, or mediator. In Job's case He was found in Elihu; in ours, in Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS FEAR. the fear that He causes. TERRIFY. startle, or scare. Compare Job 13:21; Job 33:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN WOULD I. Fain would I.... [ Continue Reading ]