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Job 18:2 open_in_new
How long... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. an end: or,. perversion.
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Job 18:3 open_in_new
Wherefore... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
vile: or, stupid.
your sight. Septuagint and Syriac read "thine eyes".
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Job 18:4 open_in_new
himself. his soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
shall. ? Figure of speech Erotesis.
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Job 18:5 open_in_new
light. The reference is to the universal practice of burning. light during the night.
wicked. lawless. Hebrew. rasha. App-44.
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Job 18:6 open_in_new
dark. Hebrew. hashak: see note on Job 3:6. showing that the man is dead, and not alive to keep the light burning.
tabernacle. tent.
candle. lamp.
with him. over him: see note on "dark", above.
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Job 18:7 open_in_new
steps of his strength. his firm step. Genitive of character. App-17.
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Job 18:8 open_in_new
walketh. walketh habitually.
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Job 18:9 open_in_new
the gin. a gin. Authorized Version, 1611, reads "grin". a snare. Same meaning, but now obsolete.
the. a
robber. noose.
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Job 18:10 open_in_new
laid. hidden.
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Job 18:11 open_in_new
drive him to his feet. follow at his feet. Compare 1 Samuel 25:42.
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Job 18:13 open_in_new
strength. parts or members of his body.
skin. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), App-6, for the whole body. Compare Exodus 22:26.
firstborn of death: i.e. the chief, or worst, or cruellest death. Figure of speech Euphemismos. App-6.
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Job 18:14 open_in_new
king of terrors. Euphemy, for death.
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Job 18:15 open_in_new
It: i.e. every one of the terrors.
none of his. not, indeed, his own.
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Job 18:19 open_in_new
nephew. grandson (Judges 12:14).
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Job 18:20 open_in_new
day. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the thing done in the day: i.e. his fall.
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Job 18:21 open_in_new
wicked. Hebrew. 'aval. App-44. Occurs elsewhere only in Job 27:7; Job 29:17; Job 31:3, and Zephaniah 3:5.
GOD. Hebrew El. App-4.