Joel
according to the idea (as $jj* the Wow in 9W, Isa. xliii 12), is an inferential ergo. Their consolation, which is only avail- which are int blOB an evil-dorr a; the
.aritableness with thev look SOS)
J has hit) verod the accuaatiot tfaa friends,
0 *.is manifest that faith « i the present wrath J to His f is and
8Wl,: ii still more in their o m, in this ii ml be astonished at himself. We see also, tno tr: to a ca! he has alre:t
II d \pecta no further has to say shall »i. II.' will alto e un ig en no n in % tlii n; hi ti\ c ind
I....s maintain m i primeval law the divine government i I. maxim that
~ work i punishment 1 datnitoni
•i. T ight rather to bear the rously all their days, and the i who li
One has only to ask ■ tin,* maintain' h position until death, and who, without beta iken by divine judgments, and without human oppositi-'n and contradiction, carried in honour to the grave, and their memory is immortalised by the monuments r their tomb. From this Job infers that the Connection into which the friends bring his suffering with supposed guilt, is a false one, and that all their answers are, after all, reducible t i an unjust and uncharitable judgment, by which they attack p?9) God.
Job has more than once given expression to the thought,
II more anl ■ osiderato ai m he depicts • 5 f the ungodly be f^r fran ir says of the destruct tin.
rded as I ill, and as thai J isfl in t! t in | life
>3 Uw of til I than Z de- really a f of the retributive j. / iiar wees uii- I to the truth than Zophar. For it ii traer that the justice of Gh 1 ii often, I led in twardly, than thai man if
Hen in, that he altogether dpably ji itribu-
:i of human destini h does occur frequently enough*
In this he bee unjust toward t, and in le of convincing him. From it, it tppean as though in the divine government there is not merely a preponderance of what is mv what is irreconcilable with divine
:ice, but as though justice were altogether contradicted.
doee not pu n Uh w here 1 1 fata* hod from i the cJoodi of tor iggled f because I the al*\u of whieh drawn has remained perfe irk the whole time,
*"d ■ iJgc has been revealed croasing from I
., which occurs ii this BJ f Eli]
friend, a it), and to assist (. to be serviceable, personal subj., and I. j?$ then with the 7ff usual intended aa a ncgmtire, it ■ any occasion t.» torment him with sufferings unju Bui lenietl the ma: as one wl < • mishit ill i* thought of as gr: the man; the I n-t. ad to thi ver.
with the no, bat that the reason can li«- in i o of sin, as it appears ar I b'e ass- guiltless, he is still ring fr«»m t sth of God.
.4 an rin a true I> • I lod perhaps punish acc< a ith thee into ju No (if in old be absi
| thy •offering), and thy misdeeds unjustly do rings; for this 1: to
I is ii. certain!}. bafl on account suft ly to r ir piety) is only perpl
I irst of all, wl' most inquire that Eliphaz begins ii thus. All the exhortati in which three exhaust r md from Job without affecting him. Even Eliphaa, the oldeet am them, full of a lofty, almost • ietic consciousness has with the utmost solicitude allured and terrified him, hut in vain. And it is the cause of God which he brings against him, or rather his
- that he Helta, with |:m impreMKMI
.ill- igc accrue* to Him from fir nature Miff "rat a leaf t 1
<st no water to ths lan*j & man of the arm — tkd land was k directly attrihutea guilt to 1 e he thinks thus to tear do e of ihfl hj the compasi M oak Ki>> s respecting duties towards but it r it from tli-' « Agression. As specific
M tinned Iments among the wan<:
assume, in OQDMCtion with ti una, anv know led ^ f this be remains o us tin their stand) of matter here which \ itt. which follow *- I the thi Inch the }. a> in the law, which meetl a response in t j.; or if thi- as Bar asserts) a i that has gained a tin*:, which has Ood '1 pra igainetit, rather -'-s. IA \ id tin I as um v an u vidua wording Io our himself. He has hv <: -quired the territory far and le for himself, by having brought down the rightful possessors 1 v h. xx. 19), or even by cunning and unfeeling practices, and is not deterred by any threat of a curse (eh. xv. 28): H5*? S ne looked upon it as his, and his it must become; and since with his possessions his authority
In poaaeeaion ol the mran
On act iman mode of actio:
ut him (mmj>. Bildad'a; f this the evildoer, cl). wiii. 8 u encompasses him ary tide, so that ha set- I must vritl escape si: achine; ruin makes itself known to liim | ter tiim- by BSRtifS which nmefanrra I •loranged and his i;
lias already in taste that whi him.
J circumstantial clause, whether it is | tied afira seest not T In 1th cases the verb in the prii wanting; apart from the new turn, whi h *x inti luces, bein^ or has th ning al \ wo dulled I lorransgression T But this is a meaning i been:it least TTO ~,J,"~ *s. of lomething similar.
canii"t form a prin mnr rithout thou HOi dafknasal Because, according to liis | ling
. k?s not question the magnii his sufferings, but acknowledges them in all their fearfulness;
the. Ilahn 1 a it must be explained: or ibouldst thou really no' thy -ins, which encomj thee as thick dark cl e as wall e two Sgtn. only be understood of the destruction which entirely.-hrouds Job in darkness, and t ns to drown him. But destruction, in the sense in which Eliphai asks if Job does not see it, is certainly rrault \iMene* t as the n
Because.1 is Jen ied the ti f wo: rtune,
OC* TOJ is i m in combinftlion with the i pC, Ism. Ivii. 15, may be taken: the substantival clause WC
OB' ii n the heavens = heaven therefore certainly highly, and fade above this earth. In thia sense it is c icd with II correct texts, and vor\ is written vn (niv whether the genitive that follows Vtr j»irtitivus:
die highest among the stars lottm.
universe) the height, n naed by the iters,
>gnises, as the plornl c*tV &, nearer end D irs rising op in: -st spheres is intended
The connection of what follows with Wow ii live (Hirz., I '/a., an I then: in I thou speakest), it ii rather consecutive (Hahn: and since thou and in of this thoo speakest j or: thus speak thou, thinkest tliou then). The undeniable truth that God IS kited, and indeed absolute in His exaltation, is misapplied by.lob to the false conclusion: what does God know, or nee the jcrf. in interrogative sentences frequently corre-
G, or take knowledge, inythu t happens oo earth? In rer. I bis modal tli- tfl of which •* Him, ting to Iml kL
H "V- like
waj of eternal duration (comp. Ezek. x.wi. 20, DTflf zy. ol the people who sleep the interminably long sleep of the grav.
r^y mfc signifies here retroepectivelj the way ol the ancient world, but not, as in Jer. vi. 1 ♦», xviii. 1.">, the way of thinking end acting of the pioui forefather! which }»ut their p teritj to shame, bot of ■ godless r ( the ancient world which stands out u i terrible example to posterity. Eliphai
Rlkfl if Job will observe keep (v:*j: as in Vs. wiii. l'2), forcibly seized and crushed, r.>'"N.\ when it was not yet time
(nH after the manner of ■ circumstantial clanae \ quum no*
■ jajj signifies to take with the tip of the finger, whereas ^1>J signifies to take with the whole bent hand, so DDp, in conformity to the dull, emphatic final consonant, signifies " to bind firmly together." In ver. 166 Pffi is not }>erf. Pual for pT (E\v. § 83, b), for this exchange, contrary to the law of vowels, of the sharp form with the lengthened form is without example; it must at least have been written P?V (comp. Judg. xviii. 29). It is Jut. Iloph., which, according toch. xi. 15, might be pflp; here, however, it is with a resolving, not assimilation, of the Jod, as in Lev. xxi. 10. The fut. has the signification of the imperfect which it acquires in an historic connection. It is not to be translated: their place became a stream which has flowed away (Hirz.), for the Xff\ which would be required by such an interpretation could not be omitted; also not: flumen effusum est ire fundamentum eorum (Rosenm., Hahn, and others), which would be E*liD7? and would still be very liable to be misunderstood; also not: whose foundation was a poured-out stream (Umbr., Olsh.), for then
1 This IDDp, according to the Masora, is the middle word of the book
•* meet in i Testament at a
Eliphaa bea those godless ones who d ' • i with
130O "TO, to to Job's assi
RMBOffibk Fad u thai which baa fallen under the strict alooa, but, with a si ren with those who f God in tb * "v~, as the I ing bel]:nt us they asked, wb le Ele tied their houses with wealth i.liphaz will do himself so kind to tho th, l»ut who, though lie is with i n^t.
Tho truly godlj ar« J, 8, that the I; on the conti over it ial mani- in their <»wn case, which makes them I and
This thought C to that fxjn a wish, Ik
vol with them by a I of the jail
«>r anticipation at the close of many of the Psalms, that the ributive justice of God, though we may have to wait a long time for it, becomes at length the more gloriously manifest to the joy of those hitherto innocently persecuted, Ps. lviii. 11 sq. The obj. of ttTI*, as in Ps. cvii. 42, is this its manifestation, is? is not an ethical dative, as in Ps. lxxx. 7, but as in Ps. ii. 4 refers to the ungodly whose mocking pride comes to inch an ignominious end What follow in \ of the godly; the introd ~':ss iswantu
00*15:' which Aben-E [uainted with the in. (tl r those who raisr tin • is int. n lo.l, tl riches. It is said of ith his pre; Tl the kith of the p>«llrsa ii an Allusion to the misfortune which tion of him who in I hapfl ' f i'-
If ti. I to the Almighty th lit be buUi m
24- And lay By in tks tbuA t/u
And ebbles ofths brooks the gold of Ophir,
So shall the Almighty be i in abundant
And tihsr to thee of Hu brightest I tit The relationship of the verbs!-?, Py} and._(_, has been friendly termfl with any one; to enter into, or to stand in, an intimate relationship to any one | Ps, exxxix. 3); then also
(us the Greek fikeui) to get accustomed to, to be used to
Prov. iii. 4: and have as the result of it peace (Aral). *l-li)
first thin^ to be done is to clear up the form ^nxtofl or
(according to another reading which is likewise well attested) sjHWfaW. Olshausen (in Ilirz. and in his Gramm.) and Kodiger (in Thes. p. 11, tuppL) explain this form the same as the other forms which come under consideration in connection with it, viz. nnxinn (yeniat), Deut. xxxiii. 16, and sT)\teR\, Keri n&farn (et venisses, addressed to Abigail), 1 Sam. xxv. 34, as errors in writing; whereas Ew., § 191, c, sees in VW^fl the erroneous form nsnri = tfSin with a superfluous feminine termination, in nnsuri an extension of the double feminine by the unaccented ah of intention, and in Tl&farj a transfer of the inflexion of the perf. to the fut. Confining ourselves to the form which occurs here, we refer to wThat was said above, p. 187, note 2: "JfiNUn is not a forma mixta from f\$S2F\ and ^riS3, but the mistaken double feminine nwin with suff., the ah of which, although the tone is on the penult, is not He voluntativum, as Isa. v. 19, but He femin. The exception of such double f eminines is made as certain in Hebrew by the regular form nnpj: (= npJi with a second feminine termination), and by examples like Prov. i. 20, Ezek. xxiii. 20, and also Josh. vi. 17, 2 Sam. i. 26, Amos iv. 3 (comp. even
-ense. ial clauses, a se il clause still the govern - it is to be ibofOOgl I XX. translates iav hi bri-
-• in Mhh count- has formerly heaped np t is certain 1 that account like to give up the:idi- vd in roan, which is so beautiful and so suited r j>oeL th< tinned in \a which tin* old versions regard as a promise in ta: jid therefore gros>ly mUint.r 1 s: a? d the dual a il ball
9 ladia at lea.ee a turn which ac with regard tl -L than Eichh thy Bl ■:" viol moliafa w\ astles of tl On I tl v of t: is a pTOini halt d inherit treasures (jI^mJ than da who are true to the imperative r:..:i "**-" i by v aaaigning to &8 here, as to ~ meani which it never hai anywh"iv; how blind, OD the Other hand, since the words in their first meanings pone super pulverern, furnish an excellent thought which is closely connected with the admonition to rid on If of unjust possessions. "i>'2, like jxi (by which Abulwalid explains it), is gold and silver ore, i.e. gold and silver as they are broken out of the mine, there- trtiallv ]>ure, gold almo* lets silver) the most >us seqtu-ntlv also unalloyed (con — viae
•i a thing as cntinlv wort i it away from thee
J with c»: orocwhat.liffereir prated in the paraJ!
lie coast of th I iro, on the:h co it. II iR«lf from temporal TO md the e leave it undecided whether io a similar Trainer ailk has iu rums whence Gea connect..in's ( x and Klrisa sent, especially since > is a as the name for India. The matter is still not settled.
priou in available n is atl the in the most an cienfl; isaages Num. xniL22, of the like kind,. without any d hand tin il sign led by Gesenii.:np.
the root r\ r%. linniffffftd onP. *i, which lignii to rise al. and from which PC*, off with a bra the signification of standing out, rising radiantly, shining afar r- to become weary, is allied to the Arab. uJU« int. i; this *UT (VE')? on the other hand, to *Jb, ascendere, adi, *_•• datum, adultum esse) and.j, rmi/tere, and tropically completum, perfectum esse. Thus we obtain the lification eminentice for mDjnn. In Ps. xcv. 4, as a i here, as in the passages i her we have transl 44 silver of tin- taut lint- (con linemt
29 its rojf oVntw, cAots mvu^
■ irhl also be translated ■ thc-n indeed t on
Hows is reallr the con: the tsa that (Sod will be to htm a rich recotn-
I hall be b<» ahle to raise his c in i -ness of his estrangemc Utrij piated guilt, free and op« ed as * of a litional rlauae,
TOP II hear him; and what he has prayer ho srfll now, after that which he sup- audio etymon I t incense ol
' in piece*, cir - in the in com irhich
. n t). cannot itamMii and doe ant 1 roverbs, to which we ha\ be low, it can alao si^nifj
The old expositors go altogether a they did not dtaceni th- imatiye ideaol r The noon her ride or haughtiness, as in ch. xxxiii. 17, Jer.
xiii. 17, but signifies adverbially sursum (therefore synon. of wards tboa sayc ill l* in lcr and mora t 1 again plan- in a condition asperity and I:
etyin«»n. Aril..' who has downcast eysji
\ sy teem a-. that hy TT*
BOa is just so also this abbreriatcd negative is Dot *st («s Dukes and ge* poo according to the traditional pronunciation, ssj old expositors, as - bmid tad J. II. Mieharlis, have
Vm mariuum tuurum alios, quo$ i vnnocentia ipsos non esset liberaturtu The purii tin- fa!'.
put from him thai which defiles him ■.;». ch« ritfa llii/-l has referred to Matt. vL 88 in connection with i;iere reminded of the woi!■ of our last words expresses prophetically NNh.it will 1m- fulfilled in the issue of th in J b bimsd
The speech of Eli: the third the con' course of the controversy the bearii m the qu \ of punishment, v. rnbellishe 1 with sliming l: hut these promises comforting Job, b they pro assumption that i only beeofl bom his ponishmsBl by turning to GkxL In th<
• of tl. no heed to their tions t. the friend their | mises, and began the moss n h and to threaten, by presenting to Job, in the most I tur-s of the ruin of the evil- his own tli:
The misconstruction which Job ces from the fliendf has the salutary effect on him of rooting him still more deeply in the hope that God will not let him die without having borne witness to his innocence. But the mystery of the present is nevertheless not cleared up for Job by this glimpse of faith into the future. On the contrary, the second course of the controversy ends so, that to the friends who unjustly and uncharitably deny instead of solving the mystery of his individual lot, Job now presents that which isn M in the: human fortune in
MM always o moral coi warrants «n
M irt from tha connection I drams. Mi the
I Bat if we in these thoagl E be only the a false cooch »z mtm from such; re where a man suf: lie reason of H be toaght in any lary purpose I
God, but solely iD<l absolut.-ly in t; puniah the sins of the ma:!acv of the ooncli lity of any Othif ptUpOi red from » t, ir» «mu with rpose of punishii is of t her, so tl reallv in the rale at I I"- lias again mdissolubly ted sufT 1 the g anj r purpose in d suff nt (from the rso nit' -ht and true eomfoi ' bliged in the present u ttiT ki the.lob, of ion faili him, to correspond to a gr unlm must furni>h him with t und of 1 which lie n» -scs (1 and unconditionally b.[ He worship, ch. xxxi. iM iffering the punishment of a covetous and compassionless rich man. Thai is the dogma of the justice of God rescued by the unjust abandonment of Job.
Further, how true is Eliphaz' condemnatory judgment linst the free-thinking, which, if it does not deny the existence of God, still regards God as shut tip in the heavens it concerning himself about anyt: 1 at takes place generation that had t ia inaolei of Go teous the sam ^raent is still 1 upon t e san. sis i dence 0 I and special providence again here in a false correct, so far as a man fa vo the one tf at once don r, — an the absurd reason gtnatic one-si*i t a person to whom he stands in n falls to pieces as soon a betel ra-
Ood remains what II >werer much the olds, although ma: s he can or il by God's abaol and arbitr.i as b« jws no higher
• refer his • it nevertheless crest* about him, and that
I1 is ev< mesa in heart 1 soon arise gra>.is behalf. For such ranees as no ea:.ows no faith beyond i seeks to lead Job back to God are in and of themselves I st gle: re is also somewhat in ' hame on.1 lirect hirn to that inward peace, to I h he had en: lost
;ht of spoke of une c: iiteous in nighty shall bccom eotumptinn ' the | bis in. I thin 0| Death 1 bbles of the \ brilliant sermon ■ with ii again t his will prophesy the Im this oonl who d og himself as *~:. to Job] tall el is abk- mediatorially I his fa tionem piu in hoc seculo s\Jb mal> norte, snlw- damnation?. sub benedicliunt mal <em, sub rim ■ laint still biddtth defiance. My hind I; upon my groaning.
IIRD COURSE Of TBI OCnmOYlBST.— C1IA! XXVI.
Ok that I knew where I might find Him, That I might corns even to His dwelling-place! 1 / would lay the cause before IIimy
And fill my mouth with arguments: 5 / should like to know the words He would answer mey And attend to what He would say to me.
Since HD (for which the LXX. reads e/c rov %€ipo<; fiov, *td; E\v. rro, from his hand) usually elsewhere signifies obstinacy, it appears that ver. 2a ought to be explained: My complaint is always accounted as rebellion (against God); but by this rendering ver. 26 requires some sort of expletive, to fu: nected thoi; although the hand is upon mi icconi rcen the two members verse, the) ad one to exp ' (u i atural ike "to alto 1 ask;
more aatnfactor rdance with tl.
b the primary n jcnayerv, lo beat raw Ught Hence ouch lightly, smear upon (to go by, over, or through, to move 1, but also *friay*Tt palatum, of an astringent taste, strong in teste, to ba bitter, opp. 1>*, aolt and mild in Uste, to bt sweet, as in another
— be loose, weak, sick, both from the root assVi rotn the signification to be tight come amorra, to stretch ttamarra, to stretch one's self tight iw one's self ou- thu state of tension of things in unw, to continue unbroken; mi
>g» oox > make and hold ones self tight against any one, ba obstinate: originally of the body, aj^ *- to strengthen themaelres in the contest -against one snot her; then of the mind, as jj. j| «- so straggle against anything, both outwardly by contra - and disputing, and inwardly by doubt and unbelief.— fL
5c whi I. Idreai bim« In nt to be trell ju
• \rn: it d t, with Bwaldj to be
It.1 T retaini its most natural tiny to which I have to submit, weighs upon my sighing, irreaistil ring it oat from mo. Then ver. 2b
D the T rs it V"*r. plaga i Miction is
I back to the hand of God, ck xix. 21,
1 The idea might also be: Ify band presses my groaning back (because it would be of no use to me); but inst this, and the Arab.
kamri'I'i, to restrain inward pain, anger, etc. by force (e.g. mat kerned, be died from suppressed rage or anxiety), has scarcely any etymological connection with "122 • me i* heavy at.,. heavier than
» comparative rendering ret}
[ftdl;. and the thing itself wb.c;
set out and • here i place wl Q ii e.st.i!»li>hi-«l. II. mng attained to this, be would lay bii
II ■ but I rn lit tumetk OJI li touthicard*, and J §H Han not.
The q n which Job, in ver. 6a, puts forth: will He contend with me in I ness or fulness of B reugth, i.e. (as ch. XXX. 18) with a calling forth of all Hil strength? he himself answers in ver. 66, hoping that the contrary may be the case: no, indeed, He will not do that.2 N7 is here
TOHM w generally accented with I)> '. ~'~v: • ith Munach, according to which Dachselt interprets: scirem, qux eloquia respondent mihi Deus, but this is incorrect. The old editions have correctly njTIK Munach, ^fyc Munnch (taking the place of Decla, because the Athnach-word which follows has not two syllables before the tone-syllable; vid. Psalter, ii. 104 §4).
2 With this interpretation, $b should certainly have Rcbia mugrasch;
j*2, sometimes rerum tamm and belong men f the sentcno lj t),L. rati e of I * er falls upon wl ilso condescend to hear his defeno its accentuation with A/crcaa proceeds from another interpretation, probably mm utiqm pomt in mi (mamum nam), according u.
aenae of K^n n Dachselt), or are at paina to obtain some other speak, and not overwhelm bin with E ty.
1 it may tli it tin it. W ame i ling with Him, i.t\ tl rily proved thai an np-
1 punishment. Tim ought ' if (i.Id l>c: il He cannot be found.
The Pj which according to the m • translated by tion: Yet I go t< |n with Mdhpach) Eip with
Mu. and He it not I j and towards the west ("rinN7 comp. DTfflK, t h. xviii. 20), and perceive Ilim not south; both words are locatirea which outwardly are undeBned. 1 if the usual sigi. "tv and *\nv are reta it is tobe« ned thus: -or in the ■ hould be active — I behold not 1 1 veil himself southwards or
I not. is explanation is also satisfactory so far a* concerned, so that it neccssan
Sntyz other than in ch. 26, and «
Bl if Hi makes EUl M^ northwar r eren call in the assistance I Ar.i conceal*) lie left han the north). Ewi o aararoed signifies! incl the Istter aseed over as use lee*
10 r ha uch can be said in favour trans-
Hi to the right hand— I eee also traceable in the Heb. ^099 •igniflee both trans, and intrant, to turn u;>, bead aside; Saadia obeenree: qoff tiynijuatiam optrimit commodum turn if em $4 nan consyicxamuj. f to this Ara ng of ^OT. U r:;, in the tense of obvelat at, doea not call to mind the IDT, p^n,
The verb u igninea trans, to turn, or lay, anything round, so that it ii Uid or drawn over something else and coven it; beoos «__> - a garment that is cast round one. ^— ■•■«, with w* of a garment: to it or wrap it about one. In trans, to turn aside, depart from, of deviating from a given direction, dtfkctert^ d<. also, to tarn in a total! y oppoaite dirsction. to torn ooea self round and to go back.— I nt to the north as the limit <>f the divine dominion. Such conceptions of the extreme north n A lOQth arc aowben nd among the Arabs as among the A races (rid. Isa.
, moreover, the conception of the north as the abode of G id can: I shown to be 1 il, either from eh.
11, NN;:.>ut a voluntative or aoristic signi poetic.
all quarters of t avens hi turns, i.e. with his ejes and the longing of his whole nature, if v by any means find God. Bui He evades him, does not reveal Him-
The *i which now follows does not give the reason of Job's earnest search aft. Gfodj hut the reason of His not being found by him. He does not allow Himeelf to be seen anywhere | 11- conceals Himself from him, lest He should be compelled to acknowledge the right of the sufferer, and to withdraw His chastening hand from bin
10 For He knoweth the way that is with me:
He should prove me, /should come forth as gold.
1 1 My foot held firm to His steps;
His icay I kept, and turntd not aside. The command of His lips — / departed not from it; More than my own determination 1 kept the words of His mouth. 1 3 Yet He remaineth by one thing, and who can turn Him? And He accomplisheth what His soul desireth.
That which is not merely outwardly, but inwardly with
1 In contrast to the extreme north, the abode of the gods, the habitation of life, the extreme south is among the Arians the abode of the prince of death and of demons, Jama (rid. vol. i. p. 325) with his attendants, and therefore the habitation of death.
■) any one, is that which he thinks and knows (his consciousness), Iing *°d acting, x. 13, xxn::. 11: 1st is conscious of
D the farmer tens**, in i i in is known to God, so that he who is now set down as a al would cook •» event of ( allowing him to appear before Him, and i ypothttiewn so often men-, which is based uj I parmU iiarac:
- Ges. { bis held fir eps of go on), so that he was always close be prede- precedes as cm. ab$olutu$ (as i spc omma lips); and what is sai y). On this prominence of a separa: after manner of an antecedent, o, note 1. 'J n arises, whether p JCV is one expression, as in xvi sense of:ig from an- moved tl vill from the possible ascenda:
1 On THK, Cajvj corrcetlr observes, and it expUint the form of the expression: The oriental foot has a power of grasp and tenacity, became not shackled with shoes from early childhood, of which we can form but little idea.
the poet in the sense of preserving and la -e natural to explain, ao £ to I LI: I kept the wi
Is) of ith, i r. esteemed them bigfa and sigi of the siun. Ilirz. rightl) the
Job uses for the law Miiful nature which strives against law of God, the wilful impulse of selfishness ami I passion, the law which the apostle dt s as frepo? i>o/i09,
Job's ience can give him this testimony, hut He, the
Go: so studiously aroids him, remains in one mind, viz.
to treat him as a eriminal; ai o can turn Him from His purpose? (the same question as ch. 10); His soul wills it (stat pro ratione volurdas), and He accomplishes it. Most expositors explain permanet in uno in this sense; the Beth is the usual 9 with verbs o: rmg upon and per.^ ing in anything. Others, h r, take the 9 as Beth essentia:
He remains one and the same, viz. in His conduct towards me (Umbr., Vaih.), or: He is one, is alone, viz. in absolute majesty (Tan:. Jer.; Schult., Ew., Hlgst., Schlottm.), wbich is admissible, since this Beth occurs not only in the comple-
1 Wetzstein arranges the significations of JEV as followB: — 1. (Beduin) intr. fut. i, to contain one's self, to keep still (hence in Hebr. to lie in wait), to be rapt in thought; conjug. II. c. ace. pers. to make any one thoughtful, irresolute. 2. (Hebr.) trans, fut. o, to keep anything to one's self, to hold back, to keep to one's self; Niph. to be held back, i.e. either concealed or reserved for future use. Thus we see how, on the one hand, |2V is related to po, eg. ch. xx. 26 (Arab, itmaanna, to be still); and,
ver.,r> we I WOV
the manner of silver; Ps. 1 in great nurnl
Pa. xxxv. 2, as D it also with the ate of a frequent in simple negative clauses than in affirmative (vi<L the absoluteness of God, which i to th nee ntended to 1* understood r,jual!_ more natural, an 1 u re prefer
Here again God appears to Job to be Hit nee towards God is again overrun bj all kinds of
I, suspicious thoughts. Ho teems to him to be a God of ishme: tc is indeed a phase of the abiding fact which he considers sup to God a mself, both be f as contending parties; i aae God avoids, 1 hear r rtex of thoughts, as rible as they are:j is hurried forward!
suasion that his affliction is a decree of divine justice.
a friends have greatly confirme: in this persuasi ao that his consciooipeai of innocence, n the idea iod as i. jecorae v opposite extremes, between which hii faith ii hanlta abla feo ■ atntain it.-.:".
It il n<-t his affliction in it«e!f» but this persuasion, which pre* es him into such a. of conflict, as the following
And much of a like kind is xcith Him.
15 Therefore I am troubled wA His presen If I Him* itk cause i I irt to b€ deject*
And I '' A I might y hat I me to confusion untenance9 which thick darkness covert
N \ it is the will of, the l I has all
■gainst him, the innocent U He has unst him ^~ He also brings to a complete as those whi rs, God has still more abundantly di for i let to torture him gradually, of a 1 1 d to the other ex
Job rding • own us as already a its hi; e, docs not refute it; for
•rtainly has a term of lr boogh it be but il in which tl of God can beep up ever new troubles for him. On the other band, tl ion of the expression in a il sense is opposed by form of the expression itself, which is not thai I to do this, but that lie purposes (to?) to do it. It is a conclusion from the present concerning the future, such as Job is able to make with reference to himself; while he, moreover, abides by the reality in respect to the mysterious distribution of the fortunes of men. Therefore, because he is a mark for the enmity of God, without having merited it, he is confounded before His countenance, which is so angrily turned upon him (comp.!':•:, Ps. xxi. 10, Lam. iv. 16); if he considers it (according to the sense jut. hypothet., as ver. 96), he trembles before Him, who recompenses faithful attachment by such
Dei to be tender, so!' oncer md rr.ws him oo to ruin he per it is m>t the \ r ]>er ground of his inward deatrt rknest of alHietioi the D in suffering wl i scon certs 1.
towards hit 1 angry countenance as he teens n worthy of mention n fit ught already.
In orieoce such tenons sufiV i*.
ost of the ( n were satisfied, and has been k., ar be taken sway from it before it came upon me), and arknees befon *>r as an excla- be equivalent to: Had I hut been:»art fron. rendering nam, which ca sorted, (l | It is us thus to carry the vb forward to the second verbs ersons. I) I darkness in ver. 17; appears (at least ar ig to the usual as thai eh is being covered, whereas that v vers son. g else; wherefore
;»lains: and darkness has not hidden, viz. such pain as I must now endure, from my face. (3) The whole thought whi thus gained is without point, and meaningless, in this connection. On the other hand, the antithesis veon V3DO and '3*0, UttO and irm:BD is at ami this antithesis, which forces itself upon th alto furnishes th€ thought which might be Sheeted from the
It is unnecessary to take HDV3 in a diff fication from i-li. vi. 17; in Arabic ^^^4^ ignifn nt rscere;
Driving of fret) movement. l**n is intended as in the quest to translate ver. 17 ': mil I that darkness covers my lifies the appearance of the conn' tin, so
But it is not this darkness which stares him in tl m i not this his m le form, which: ^rkness covers (on ^CN ■'. ch. \. M, that destroys his inmost nature; but tl, it that Go: forth in hostility dnst him, which makes his affliction so terrific, doubly so in cor n with the inalienable conscious^ of his innocence. From the incomprel le punishment which, without reason, issing over him, he now again comes to speak of the incomprehensible connivance of God, which permits the godlessness of the world to go on unpunished.
Ch. xxiv. 1 Wherefore are not bounds reserved by the Almighty, And they who honour Him see not His days? 2 They remove the landmarks,
They steal jiocks and shepherd them.
%ty rarn/ airiy the a$$ of the orphan, A train tJie ox of the widow.
4 They tltrust the needy out of the \c<i si poor of the land are obliged to tlxnh axcay togeUi
. la becomes then onately long, and cannot bt led into two lines of compara:
In fart, rrpth^ is by no means ab^.eceasary.
The usage of the language assumes it, according np follov he g« 1 the point of at xxii.:\, riod when r, or even the terminus ad <pi*n.. owed
30, ai or with M\ when God's
Jotjl i. Lr>, and fr«: T iness of poetic language goes bt tisaget by uain - as is almost SftaOy acknow- ment or of m I it is the leas ambiguous, since sense of the d predetermination of what is
M:'-. a the tense of time* of retribution, Wetastein compares the
Arab. — *'-*-:. which signifies predetermined reward or punishnv moreoT - ed from mg (from ijn), and D*FP is equiTalent to
D'JTiy. according to the same law of assimflatioD, \<j which now-a-days they sa y %rb instead •.- - N (one who is born on the same day with me, assimilation of the t takes place everywhere where n is prooonnced. The n of the feminine termination in Qfflft as in n\TlpC> and the like, perha^* also in UTQ •:r7»), i* amalgamated with the root.
, rh. wi. 1 an acknowledged word of OQf ever, ch. xxviii. 1 is erroneously cited in its favour); it is never MM than equivalent to awo, for to use T- dinctly as with the pass: idmil neither in Hebrew nor in xviii. Jl, those who know God, not iiht.1v RtperficisJIy, l»ut from [ Hi^ ways, o neeqnently thoae who are in fellowship with Him. *Tn 10 is to be written with 2 rith norith n- ites the ntr. at of the tone of nn to its i
Next follows the Iption of the moral abhoCT while the friends (ch. xxii. 19} maintain a divim- retribution ry where manifest, is painfully conscious of the absence of any determination of tin* periods and days of judicial pnnishment. Fearlessly and unpnni the oppression of the help- less and defenceless, though deservii, a cur-.-, rages in ry form. They remove the landmarks; comp. Dent xxvii. 17, "Cursed IS he who removeth his neighbour's landmark" (-'-?. here once written with IT, while otherwise 3'frn from -V':T signifies asscqui, on the other hand "-^ from M signifies dimovere). They steal flocks, VfH^ue, they are so barefaced, that after they have stolen them they pasture them openly. The ass of the orphans, the one that is their whole possession, and their only beast for labour, they carry away as prey (3?3, as e.g. Isa. xx. 4); they distrain, i.e. take away with them as a pledge (on?3n? to bind by a pledge, obstringere, and also to take as a pledge, vid. on ch. xxii. 6, and Kohler on Zech. xi. 7), the yoke-ox of the widow (this is the exact meaning of tW, as of the Arab. thi v tur needy aside ft way h they are goiogi ao that they are oblige*!
wanlrr hither and thither without home or djgjhl I the poor the land are obliged to hide themeehre* altogether. Tlu« as its obj*, is used n Amos tber ed of turning away from a ri^ht elong
I the wa ickleaa regions.
and llings are intended (com: H*, acconi e poet takes his stand in an agi» the di m of the races had been already disturbed I m}tmmULmm of war h:. I the inoanim ol alien*). U lb* narrative lies in Haurut:iore cxat in the.i, it is natural, \Vetaatein, to t
5 Behold, as trild atttt in the (Uteri, y 9° forth m tiW* xcork teeJcing for pr rood to them for the children. y reap the fodder for hit catt glean A yard of the erilrdoer.
7 They pott the night in nakednest without a garmei he poet could oi mm such a picture as this, having himself seen I I his hero, and.dam i Lous this Raajsj the C%K1B, onayri (Kulans), are D ied, — those beautiful animals1 w be \ D in, and when grown up an ult to be caught;
which in tluir love of freedom are an image of th- i. wi. ISj thsil uii:r:ictableneaa an image of that which • bom. xi. LS; and from tl: IS herds in was! is, are here an in >f a gregari< thinking that aL minum sceUratorum genui
I of wr. 1/, that here, as in ch. XXJL 1 sqrp, those who are driven fa into the wastes and caves, and a remnant of the ej
Bed ai who out a I ice, are
The accentuation rightly connects 17103 DW; by the omission of the Caph sirjiilit., as e.g. Isa. li. 12, the comparison (like a wild ass) becomes an equalization (as a wild ass). The per/. ttOT is a general uncoloured expression of that which is usual: they go forth D;V*p, in their work (not: to
1 Layard, A~< Discoveries, p. 270, describes these wild asses' colts. The Arabic name is like the Hebrew, el-fera, or also hirnar el-wahsh, i.e. wild ass, as we have translated, whose home is od the steppe. For fuller particulars, vid. Wetzstein's note on ch. xxxix. 5 sqq.
if work, as | resses hims
1 ' m* their daily occupation as t: roam ab ynstruetivu$ mi here, without I lation, aa a form of connection, ace connected with the expression.! k -hea those who are in want and misery, ch as those 1 ea are gift I practices, aa those who hare been bro iown to pover the wrongdoing ( •».
- \ the morning Psalm, lxiii
Ita b describe* goin. the ea father in the eotnpa » (with iu aca:
rooU and herbs 10 him food for the ehil snatches it fn>m it, it mtut furnish it for him. e idea in himself sn fami Hahn, and others);
h has been much misunderstood, describes ■ r, particularly the adults, obtain their necessary subsistence. Tber o mh. au ir readir nstead of
2: the translation " what is not to him" (LXJL, Ts and partially also the Syriac version) is therefore to be re-
,: Rasch I lA«r as a general expla dbag W:~ it is, as in ch. 'lixed fodder irrxiyo, consisting of oats or barley sown am
«s and beans, that is intended. The meaning is not, vverer, as most expositors explain it, that they seek to sat heir hunger with the food for cattle grown in fields of the rich evil-doer <"? docs not signify to sweep tog. but to reap in an orderly manner; and if they meant to steal why did they not seize the better portion of employed at Um win to gather ti Haggling gra wh. pen late, and w re left at the \intage nattiral to think of the.v- the aft nprth of grass, where the vineyard is the inbj On th gnifies, as it were, m tinos j i colli.m.;:1 this is the rk which the rich man assigns to them, uns bj it, and even in tin but little.
\. 7 aq. u 11 how miserably they are obliged to shift for themi daring this autumnal season of labour, and her times. Naked i-*~y, whether an adverbial form or not, is conceived of after the manner of an accusative: in
matter, e.g.;j'*~" and tyjp V"'- late seed (= z;pb, Arnos vii. 1, in connection with which the late rain" in April, which often fails, ia reckoned on), -? I^n, a child born late {i.e. in old age); bakir T32 and lekri nsn
are the opposites in every signification. — Wetzst.
I shelter themselves u the orerhan^ rn, an 1 clir lea it in said th.it race dunghill sun hsi warm* The usual acoei the Bedaias sUsp naknt at oigt. nc* **srd why they do or thry are often daworbr.-. i I »x» toll the nomads of the steppe (fteeJf) sad of the caves (« lbs lassa, snmmer aod winter; many prnah oa Um pastures when overtake* by snow-rtonna, or by cold sod want. ».♦•■. ou and stores are taken from them in the * inter lime by aa earn
1 Wetsstem obasnss on tl — ie the boosa made of stone, from which localities not unfreqorntly d< their names, x i«, oa the east of the Dead Sea; the * ho i* firmly act tied. The root pQfit "pn ii the desert, to be only dialectically distinct, and hk • be pressed close upon one another.
u wiv 9-11. undatione monUi humictati false bed in my Rt&Sfi haa its n;t one, uses hare been attache: pan is passage signifies to press to seek rain -torrents ( are far anong the m- iian on
. in the month of March, a* lly Slid tl.- v seek to: under the rocks or I a of the wad cold strong winds, for the sake of the you: oold
-ins are often l:ns come on, it
.oral t: c the si flocks to hasten to take sh« under overhanging rocks, and I wugkr jc<) which belong to
_dodyte age, and are e.g. common in the mountains of Hauran; so that, therefore, ver. 8 can as well refer to concealing themselves only for a time (from rain and storm) in the clefts as to troglodytes, who constantly dwell in caverns, or to those dwelling in tents who, during the storms, seek the dherwe of rock sides.
arcci leas a till lender an away
•nee i is dono to I usage of t);uagi\ occur I accoi analogy ags
-an bo construed 7 as well as wr poet, lis constru gu: IT from ch. u. *; an is with rmhivit to be translated: tin ng destrm:
MOB the poor; or bet take andlM advantage of those who otherwks are plaosd m trying rimnmitincm i become object! ol iNraltfl -i«»n, md the poet here in v.t. LOt indeed repeats what he haa already said almost word for word in vei ut there the naked nets was the general calamity of a n | pressed by rabjag. here it is the consequence of the sifl of mercea rtttntii which fries al(»ud to heaven, j clothing, and while suffering hunger they carry the sheaves
:iOS their masters deny t i Dent I
4, shall not be withheld even from the beaMs). He t ween their wall (TtXtd 1; " 'I-..1 Wn0, i.e. the walls of their masters who have made them slaves, there: un»i rsight, they prai OQfl t;.»- "il (r ^-y^P-)} they tread the win. —vats (£'-"'. licus), and suffer thiral withal '. consec. according to Ew. § 342, a), without being allowed to quench their thirst from the DOSt which runs out of the presses (J"nTU, torrularvi, from which the verb TTJ is here transf. to the vats). Bottch. translates: between their rows of I without reach out right or left; but that is least of all suitable with the olives. Carey correctly explains: k' the factories or the garden enclosures of these cruel slaveholders.'' This reference of the word to the wall of the enclosure is more suitable than to walls of the press-house ifl particular. From tyrannical oppression in the country,1 Job now passes over to the abominations of discord and war in the cities.
1 Brentiufl here remarks: Quantum igitur judicium in eos futurnm esty qui in homines ejuscUm cariiis, ejusdem patriae, ejusdem fidei, ejusdem ChriaU
•ftfti' is accentuation wm hare be* iflsj tfefl fen Q •-.: no! Uus -vp, certainly the - #*f, sBd freq.t corrrapooda. What we remarked
*t*w, i tbi form m u cleared lowing segolate forms of the form ^TC. which, aa belonging to the earlieat period ition of the Semitic language*, take neither plural nor feminine iis; they hare often a collective meaning, and are not originally ab$: xmcrtto in the seote of the Arabic port, act.^. Ink inflexible priii. nnation it frequently found in the present day in the the n there men (men of war), although "; all
I already dead, b moo, those who are pierced t!
I the latter phra I \\ ith the what liable t<» mi f the bI ■ \\ antkgafl ■ lit). Thus tli.- B.-Iuin says: hu qiiH (fytSp ICV1 is my opponent in a hand-to-hand coin hat; itrthl (*TO3 in the tournament with lane.- z^~ %~^i. my the step-children, and a coneir irr (i^v), as I tor of rival. The Kamus also furnishes several i rhich fo a city, from Tip (whence, according to a prevalent law of ge of rebelling one, lie. the enemy (who is now in the idiom of the steppe called qomdni, from qum, a state of war, a feud), as Ty, a keeper; and V¥, a messenger; TJJ (Vp) is also originally concrete, a wall (enclosure;.
is not the oppressors, but those who suffer oppression. TOtlj is pi stink), absi.
otrtdi ility n lets a-.^ht
DOrtl orief of the w« rod reraaies nevertheless in,: ac version reads nWff, and translate*,
Others an those that rtM ogav ion which has escape*: i obscn to be general chara. that they shun the I described in \vr*. 14 *<j. are described sccording to t general charac in ver. 13; acco: not to lb* enemies of I ^ht, se are, according to their very n. enemies uL 26) affirms varebecon urn inclinati one's self against anything, to lean upon, to
Tl irv hostile • ili.iritv With reading oc they neither i winch ligbl and d irkness arc two principles «»f tin* winnte deacription of the loct of tl mirs of tin* light now begins with "^. [1 ii impossible that this should till in the 'lark: the night towards the light) when it is t light. M, in biblical II br w, "rtM doa not. in which sei
Talmndk Aramaic. The meaning, on the contrary, is that tunate and the poor, who pass by defenceless and alone. ()ne has to supply the idea of the ambush in which the way- ait; an i it is ccrta:ivcnient thai it M rimo mans is meant byTl*?. II wl goes furtii I rder a nighl comn petty thefts, when aid attack passes
I translates: to slay the poor and wretched, anl in i then the i ought recede* and in general it ved without strar it, thai where has a modal signification.
ob- e be hopes to render himsi m.4;.. -*:: —r.:...:;..:..' bj which hii ooantananee is reoden i unrecognisable (l.XX. iwompvfiii wpoawwov), like the Aral h, a curtail •• a veil fur the face, or, as wo SS »ne w owed from the Aral if mask was perhaps nerer knot alestine and Syria; 1HO
B the mttdil or women's tou\ which in the present d\ lauran usively) is called aiCr, and m worn orer the (ace bj all married woman
:i the country it is worn hanging down the back, and is only drawn orer the lace in the presence of a stranger. If this erpla- nation is correct, the poet means to say that the adulterer, in order to r thiy know rs of t tli of night.
f the thief, which ii but ilightlj referred hare marke I: 1 the dm I its
, to se pal d lock and key, cIl \iv. 17, ix. 7. 1 ling to which the lr>>K which ocean only fa day t: il op, iX shut themaelTei up for their sai ated with
Ail it with li: they know not the light, i.e. as Schlottin. weD explains: they fa ihip with for the biblical >~\ yumatnufj mostly signifies a km ledge which enters into the subject, and intimately unites in fact, in rian towns (tl..en's clothing is always chosen for that kind of forbid lea nocturnal undertak-
. the man d limself in ai which covers him from fa to foot, takes the mtnJil, and goes with a 1 (without which at night ever >n is seized by th watchman as a suspicious person) un-
:.to a strange house. — Wet/ 1 Vid. Abcn-Ezra on Ex. xii. 7. The main proof that it is to be pronounced hdttim is, that written exactly it is lTZ, and that the Metheg,
1 ■ v>, apart from the t rroneoti
I easily tet B the dtnp ed at r, secerned, second ^funach stands as I hose vali resents;
• tliat beftlla all these evil- thou in the sense of ti. that th se men are overtaJ merited punishment. serious ai in dh
28: 19 and ' intially the same thii rn-
Malm, that Job, outstripping the f ri 21, is often witr.: so tliat this cons tly furnishe evidence iii support of the excl the friends.
nothing to indicate a direct contrast, is 0] 1 to it; and ver. 22, which has no appearance of referring to a direct contrast with what has been previously said, is opposed to ast, as mv 1. ness of 1 ind can scarcely be set:
Iran ji int rlpool, or buried by the.
■ >f vanishing from fright, by 1 ilv is cur—' 1 l'\ men, sil Ifl will II in H nee it, npoo him, nor i lie in wait ing upon him tin* rage which bis oondoct during life i xxl L8 without i fij in ■ moment th down mot, in the f<»rm of an emblemal
I uliarit v of which, '-. bat Iv the copalal
1 The translation: like foam (spuma or bulla Thus larg cannot be etymological! v proved, \vl Ppffl.ification c it (":. irori beneath and above, natch away (vn, cogn.
onU are a) as been a I >wt encc easily and unobserved, '1 mother that
(as U wn in the present day
• r the Targi in the is cognate will in ■. On the form y^
In tl; Job goes *> I forth But after I 13,33, 1 that ti the ungodly passes a v if th i of Qod, he returns their death, which tl. ry to hav irfnlly dead t it is only now and then distingoU m the death of ming on late v tgh hi despaired of life.
23 H 1 he is sustained, And His eyes are o< ir ways.
and be is s absolute use nnot be supported; in
;i. viii. raises him op ■ II iten op, no height 0 win' the tribnti individoali I
1 off like all. OBfl it an Ami iching which it is unnecessary with Olsh. to read after Ezek.
x. [)) signifies, according to the primary signification of occdes, i kfl the bead of an car if also presented bt m a common thing for the
• (Be«i At -time to come down upon ir to the Roman rica) and with sabres, whence thus U called qar •— $abrit an«l that which u cut off, as the uneren t left star, a called q:
T each which the uncharitableness of the:
it in • eech of Elipl ■. his
• ss them, not as though ho did i to >: it because ha has nothi ly have sai»l, I is lost all h« his with Qtaetty that they would spare him, all hope of u landing tnd infonnati part.
:' with the mj ring lot, tnd in the evil-doers' | ad immunity from pun: it I!
is lie to vir. ' Elij:ice his lament moi nit obstinacy r—:. and consequently tends to I till d into that lOSpicioil which he is trying to remove II imony concerning himself is of no a\ail; for it appears to the friends more self-delusiw, hypocritical, and sinful, the more decidedly he maintains it; consequently the judgment of God can alone decide between him and his accusers. Ikit while the friends accuse him by word of mouth, God himself is pronouncing sentence against him by His acts, — his affliction is a de facto accusation of sot ho i* ness does not Am I, alt). Ha it I
He will attcn tin? Gc« then 1 lis** ia of lho ji. truth sses forward. He thinks th him, he will admit no other thought but that <-f su sarcasm ntrary, as 01 bildish in the bright height • in eh.
diet, in which, like a bli
I 1 1 in thinks that I le him lest He >uld be - ■ him, The
1 of the fatal faith clings, who will and must \in-
«) soon as 11 - - If to be found and either from his Soffeiio X future cutting rebuki [ht against him. He help him; and G '. whose ju to ha ives him still in difficulty. But ti lot of affliction, still mere in >us from f the rever- which be is by Eliphai more closely to consider, terrible him. He, the innocent i ing tortured
Lth by an angry God, while for the ungodly there come of punishment, no days of vengeance: greedy conquerors, merciless rulers, oppress the poor to the last drop of blood, who are obliged to yield to them, and must serve them, without wrong being helped by the right; murderers, who shun the light, thieve-, and adulterers, carry on their evil irses unpun" swiftly and ca away, as beat does the melted snow; eren « I raj tin* « nidaf the Meads: if it will is a 1 What ai oil to faith, and so are cot.
<oir com Id one born of woman be pur ii-i's, that ina Q hifl supposedly j in cannot possibly be |)Urc*j neequently exalted al>. I punishi Him,
(infrequently omitted both in participial principal \ii. 17.1' tup.
presented I thus absolul og the j with the subject: He in Hia hei n from His throne in tl But moat exp _rhtly take it
>f the ■ of the action expr
He establishes | ace in IT- mong the celestial bei r snrroonding Him. Tl. ly assuming the al bilityofd htmemz fa •/estate
(Schmi But although from ch.
iv. 18| xv. 15, nothing more than that even the holy ones are neither removed from the possibility of sin nor the necessity of a judicial authority which is high above them, can ai in S angels and the stars
.m army arrayed I as after the Tertian mutation — ai loe* n *. II I.o does not II ile i In- II irhicfa ii betel tlthoogh there la a IC wit!;ht,
I at ilia translate; wl Saadia 1 it tarni not in naturally -'-" TTtif in com l with this thought.
1 It is worthy of ol ion, tl in Arabic the d is used of I ing and shining of the new hji-
. stars ai m in His eyes; there is i if the language which I t Job were no ip i the above speech / percei ^e, because too near to the boo c ob- that all their darts bt> md
For t e unjust incrimii which were pal ward in tl 11. Bild id only
J the universal sinfulness of the human race him m it tin* humble him id 1 this adm ' really needs, f«»r hi aie in m.
don with the best j of right thoughts G i, 2, 8 tie ir oi id: bow thy speech contains nothing whatever that might help me, the supposi eble one, in conquering my affliction and d aptation; me, the supposedly ignorant one, in comprehending man's mysterious lot, and mine! "I'N*"". trding to the idea, is only equivalent to ib na pit) i& -:x\ and fine ghj inivalent tonnctajnn! (lb 19 K>); the former is the abstr.pro concrete, the latter the iitival connection — the arm of the no-power, i.e. powerless (Ges. § 152, 1 The powerless one is Job himself, not God i Mure, Schlottm.), as even the choice of the verbs, vers.
sod otbcrv assnms the prin at ions tola: turn, oau
Lagartle (Justrrhiapea arjr.
) correctly remarks taa: -. is only a change of
OOSMMSJ hafMfl f r._". hd so finish painting (whenco
' imi transposition from mr. to be U Hspli (Hitajg v l Prov.:.. ni i, UsA so m Mttabli saam nify by whose assistance (Arnh., Hahn); but in the sense i tplaining anything to any: turn ooncerning anything, it be ln(