A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Job: Together with a New Translation, Part 1C. Scribner's sons, 1921 - Bible |
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Almighty animal answer appears Aramaic assertion Barachel beasts Behold Bildad Book of Job calamity cited clause crocodile darkness death Dialogue distich doth dust earth Edom Elihu Eliphaz emendation Epilogue Esharra expressed favour fear flesh follows give God's hand hast hath Hauran heaven Hebrew Hiob hippopotamus implied iniquity innocence interpolation interpretation Job's leviathan light man's meaning mouth naturally omits original ostrich Palestine parallel passage Peake perhaps phil phrase Pleiades present probably Prologue prosperity question Rahab reference rendered righteous Satan sense Sheol sins Sophar speak speech of Yahweh sufferings suggests term thee theory thine thou thought three friends Tiamat tion translation tristichs unrighteous unto wicked wilt wisdom womb words writer
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Page 20 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Page 78 - For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And prepare thyself to the search of their fathers : (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow:) Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?
Page 57 - For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field : And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Page 15 - The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them; and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Page 362 - Behold, the hope of him is in vain: Shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
Page 242 - Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
Page 93 - The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
Page 54 - He taketh the wise in their own craftiness : and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Page 138 - He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Page 5 - His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.