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Job 27:2 open_in_new
GOD. Heb El. App-4.
THE ALMIGHTY. Hebrew Shaddai. App-4.
my soul. me. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
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Job 27:3 open_in_new
breath. Hebrew. n. shamah, App-16.
spirit. breath. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.
GOD Heb- Eloah App-4.
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Job 27:4 open_in_new
wickedness. Hebrew. 'aval. App-44.
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Job 27:5 open_in_new
God forbid. Far be it from me. Figure of speech Deists. App-6.
die. expire.
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Job 27:8 open_in_new
what... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
taketh away his soul. By. different division of the letters it means "when he lifteth up his soul to God", or "when God demandeth his soul".
his soul. himself; or, his life. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
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Job 27:9 open_in_new
Will... ? Figure of speech Erotesis.
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Job 27:10 open_in_new
always. continually.
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Job 27:11 open_in_new
I will teach you. This is Zophar '. third and last address. (1) It is required by the Structure on p. 669 to complete the symmetry of the book. (2) The sentiments of Job 27:11 -- Job 28:28 demand it, for they are the very opposite of Job's and the same as Zophar's in Job 27:13; Job 20:29. (3) If these are Job's words, then his friends had convinced him, which Elihu declares they had not done (Job 32:12). (4) The Hebrew of Job 29:1 does not mean "continued", but " added to take up his discourse", which may mean conclusion as well as continuance. (5) It marks off and separates Job 29:1 -- Job 31:40 from Job's ordinary replies. Instead of replying to Zophar, Job utters his "selfjustification" (in Job 29:1 -- Job 31:40), which corresponds with his lamentation in Job 3:1-26, and forms the conclusion as that had been the introduction, and prepares us for "the words of Job are ended" in Job 31:40. (6) Kennicott, Bernard, and Wolfsson assign. third address to Zophar.
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Job 27:13 open_in_new
This is the portion, &c. Zophar thus takes up the words with which he had concluded his second address (Job 20:29).
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Job 27:14 open_in_new
children. sons.
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Job 27:15 open_in_new
buried in death. buried through pestilence.
his widows. The widow of each one of them.
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Job 27:18 open_in_new
booth. Generally made of branches of trees. Compare Isaiah 1:8.
keeper. watcher: i.e. vineyard watcher.
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Job 27:19 open_in_new
he. it: i.e. his wealth which is out at interest.
gathered. gathered in, or collected.
he. it: i.e. his wealth is gone. Not he, the rich man, for if he opens his eyes, he "is", not "is not".
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Job 27:22 open_in_new
God is wrongly supplied. It means "he who was wont in times past to flee from the rich man will now come down on him". would fain flee. Hebrew. seeing would flee. Figure of speech Polyptoton. would hastily flee.