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Job is the most penetrating treatment of suffering, divine justice, and epistemological humility in the Hebrew Bible. Its probable date is pre-Mosaic (patriarchal setting), making it one of the oldest compositions in Scripture.
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- Primary Witness Text: Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills? Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us? With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father. Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. The wicked man travaileth with p...
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Job is the most penetrating treatment of suffering, divine justice, and epistemological humility in the Hebrew Bible. Its probable date is pre-Mosaic (patriarchal setting), making it one of the oldest compositions in Scripture.
Job's friends represent the dominant ancient Near Eastern theodicy: suffering = sin. God's answer from the whirlwind (chs. 38-41) does not explain the suffering but confronts Job with the staggering scale and wisdom of the creation — demanding the creature's epistemological humility before the Creator. Job 19:25-27 ("I know that my Redeemer lives") stands as the OT's most personal resurrection confession.
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Job 15:1
Hebrew
וַיַּעַן אֱלִיפַז הַֽתֵּימָנִי וַיֹּאמַֽר׃vaya'an-'eliyfaz-hateymaniy-vayo'mar
KJV: Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
AKJV: Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
ASV: Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
YLT: And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --
Exposition: Job 15:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:2
Hebrew
הֶֽחָכָם יַעֲנֶה דַֽעַת־רוּחַ וִֽימַלֵּא קָדִים בִּטְנֽוֹ׃hechakham-ya'aneh-da'at-rvcha-viymale'-qadiym-vitenvo
KJV: Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
AKJV: Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
ASV: Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge,
YLT: Doth a wise man answer with vain knowledge? And fill with an east wind his belly?
Commentary WitnessJob 15:2Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 15:2
Verse 2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge - Or rather, Should a wise man utter the science of wind? A science without solidity or certainty. And fill his belly with the east wind? - בטן beten, which we translate belly, is used to signify any part of the cavity of the body, whether the region of the thorax or abdomen; here it evidently refers to the lungs, and may include the cheeks and fauces. The east wind, קדים kadim, is a very stormy wind in the Levant, or the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, supposed to be the same with that called by the Greeks ευροκλυδων, euroclydon, the east storm, mentioned Act 27:14. Eliphaz, by these words, seems to intimate that Job's speech was a perfect storm or tempest of words.
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Job 15:2
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Act 27:14
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Levant
- Mediterranean Sea
- Eliphaz
Exposition: Job 15:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:3
Hebrew
הוֹכֵחַ בְּדָבָר לֹא יִסְכּוֹן וּמִלִּים לֹא־יוֹעִיל בָּֽם׃hvokhecha-vedavar-lo'-yisekhvon-vmiliym-lo'-yvo'iyl-vam
KJV: Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
AKJV: Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?
ASV: Should he reason with unprofitable talk,
YLT: To reason with a word not useful? And speeches--no profit in them?
Commentary WitnessJob 15:3Quoted commentary witness
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Job 15:3
Verse 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? - Should a man talk disrespectfully of his Maker, or speak to him without reverence? and should he suppose that he has proved any thing, when he has uttered words of little meaning, and used sound instead of sense?
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Job 15:3
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- Maker
Exposition: Job 15:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:4
Hebrew
אַף־אַתָּה תָּפֵר יִרְאָה וְתִגְרַע שִׂיחָה לִפְנֵי־אֵֽל׃'af-'atah-tafer-yire'ah-vetigera'-shiychah-lifeney-'el
KJV: Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
AKJV: Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.
ASV: Yea, thou doest away with fear,
YLT: Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.
Commentary WitnessJob 15:4Quoted commentary witness
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Job 15:4
Verse 4 Thou castest off fear - Thou hast no reverence for God. And restrainest prayer - Instead of humbling thyself, and making supplication to thy Judge, thou spendest thy time in arraigning his providence and justifying thyself. When a man has any doubts whether he has grieved God's Spirit, and his mind feels troubled, it is much better for him to go immediately to God, and ask forgiveness, than spend any time in finding excuses for his conduct, or laboring to divest it of its seeming obliquity. Restraining or suppressing prayer, in order to find excuses or palliations for infirmities, indiscretions, or improprieties of any kind, which appear to trench on the sacred limits of morality and godliness, may be to a man the worst of evils: humiliation and prayer for mercy and pardon can never be out of their place to any soul of man who, surrounded with evils, is ever liable to offend.
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Job 15:4
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- Ovid
- Ray
- Judge
Exposition: Job 15:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:5
Hebrew
כִּי יְאַלֵּף עֲוֺנְךָ פִיךָ וְתִבְחַר לְשׁוֹן עֲרוּמִֽים׃khiy-ye'alef-'avnekha-fiykha-vetivechar-leshvon-'arvmiym
KJV: For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
AKJV: For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
ASV: For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth,
YLT: For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.
Commentary WitnessJob 15:5Quoted commentary witness
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Job 15:5
Verse 5 For thy mouth uttereth - In attempting to justify thyself, thou hast added iniquity to sin, and hast endeavored to impute blame to thy Maker. The tongue of the crafty - Thou hast varnished thy own conduct, and used sophistical arguments to defend thyself. Thou resemblest those cunning persons, ערומים arumim, who derive their skill and dexterity from the old serpent, "the nachash, who was ערום arum, subtle, or crafty, beyond all the beasts of the field;" Gen 3:1. Thy wisdom is not from above, but from beneath.
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Job 15:5
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Gen 3:1
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Maker
Exposition: Job 15:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:6
Hebrew
יַרְשִֽׁיעֲךָ פִיךָ וְלֹא־אָנִי וּשְׂפָתֶיךָ יַעֲנוּ־בָֽךְ׃yareshiy'akha-fiykha-velo'-'aniy-vshefateykha-ya'anv-vakhe
KJV: Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
AKJV: Your own mouth condemns you, and not I: yes, your own lips testify against you.
ASV: Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I;
YLT: Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 15:6Generated editorial synthesis
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Job 15:6
Job 15:6 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Job 15:6
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 15:6
Exposition: Job 15:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:7
Hebrew
הֲרִאישׁוֹן אָדָם תִּוָּלֵד וְלִפְנֵי גְבָעוֹת חוֹלָֽלְתָּ׃hari'yshvon-'adam-tivaled-velifeney-geva'vot-chvolaleta
KJV: Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
AKJV: Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?
ASV: Art thou the first man that was born?
YLT: The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?
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Job 15:7
Verse 7 Art thou the first man that was born? - Literally, "Wert thou born before Adam?" Art thou in the pristine state of purity and innocence? Or art thou like Adam in his first state? It does not become the fallen descendant of a fallen parent to talk as thou dost. Made before the hills? - Did God create thee the beginning of his ways? or wert thou the first intelligent creature which his hands have formed?
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Job 15:7
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- Literally
Exposition: Job 15:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:8
Hebrew
הַבְסוֹד אֱלוֹהַ תִּשְׁמָע וְתִגְרַע אֵלֶיךָ חָכְמָֽה׃havesvod-'elvoha-tishema'-vetigera'-'eleykha-chakhemah
KJV: Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
AKJV: Have you heard the secret of God? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself?
ASV: Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God?
YLT: Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?
Commentary WitnessJob 15:8Quoted commentary witness
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Job 15:8
Verse 8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? - "Hast thou hearkened in God's council?" Wert thou one of the celestial cabinet, when God said, Let Us make man in Our image, and in Our likeness? Dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? - Dost thou wish us to understand that God's counsels were revealed to none but thyself? And dost thou desire that we should give implicit credence to whatsoever thou art pleased to speak? These are all strong sarcastic questions, and apparently uttered with great contempt.
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Job 15:8
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Exposition: Job 15:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:9
Hebrew
מַה־יָּדַעְתָּ וְלֹא נֵדָע תָּבִין וְֽלֹא־עִמָּנוּ הֽוּא׃mah-yada'eta-velo'-neda'-taviyn-velo'-'imanv-hv'
KJV: What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
AKJV: What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?
ASV: What knowest thou, that we know not?
YLT: What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou--and it is not with us?
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Job 15:9
Verse 9 What knowest thou - Is it likely that thy intellect is greater than ours; and that thou hast cultivated it better than we have done ours? What understandest thou - Or, Dost thou understand any thing, and it is not with us? Show us any point of knowledge possessed by thyself, of which we are ignorant.
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Job 15:9
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- Or
Exposition: Job 15:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:10
Hebrew
גַּם־שָׂב גַּם־יָשִׁישׁ בָּנוּ כַּבִּיר מֵאָבִיךָ יָמִֽים׃gam-shav-gam-yashiysh-vanv-khaviyr-me'aviykha-yamiym
KJV: With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
AKJV: With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much elder than your father.
ASV: With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men,
YLT: Both the gray-headed And the very aged are among us--Greater than thy father in days.
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Job 15:10
Verse 10 With us are both the gray-headed - One copy of the Chaldee Targum paraphrases the verse thus: "Truly Eliphaz the hoary-headed, and Bildad the long-lived, are among us; and Zophar, who in age surpasseth thy father." It is very likely that Eliphaz refers to himself and his friends in this verse, and not either to the old men of their tribes, or to the masters by whom they themselves were instructed. Eliphaz seems to have been the eldest of these sages; and, therefore, he takes the lead in each part of this dramatic poem.
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Job 15:10
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- Targum
- Ray
- Zophar
Exposition: Job 15:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:11
Hebrew
הַמְעַט מִמְּךָ תַּנְחֻמוֹת אֵל וְדָבָר לָאַט עִמָּֽךְ׃hame'at-mimekha-tanechumvot-'el-vedavar-la'at-'imakhe
KJV: Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
AKJV: Are the consolations of God small with you? is there any secret thing with you?
ASV: Are the consolations of God too small for thee,
YLT: Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word is with thee,
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 15:11Generated editorial synthesis
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Job 15:11
Job 15:11 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.
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Job 15:11
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 15:11
Exposition: Job 15:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:12
Hebrew
מַה־יִּקָּחֲךָ לִבֶּךָ וּֽמַה־יִּרְזְמוּן עֵינֶֽיךָ׃mah-yiqachakha-livekha-vmah-yirezemvn-'eyneykha
KJV: Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
AKJV: Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,
ASV: Why doth thy heart carry thee away?
YLT: What--doth thine heart take thee away? And what--are thine eyes high?
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Job 15:12
Verse 12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? - Why is it that thou dost conceive and entertain such high sentiments of thyself? And what do thy eyes wink at - With what splendid opinion of thyself is thine eye dazzled? Perhaps there is an allusion here to that sparkling in the eye which is excited by sensations of joy and pleasing objects of sight, or to that furious rolling of the eyes observed in deranged persons. Rosenmuller translates thus: - Quo te tuus animus rapit? Quid occuli tui vibrantes? "Whither does thy soul hurry thee? What mean thy rolling eyes?" Thou seemest transported beyond thyself; thou art actuated by a furious spirit. Thou art beside thyself; thy words and thy eyes show it. None but a madman could speak and act as thou dost; for thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth, Job 15:13. This latter sense seems to agree best with the words of the text, and with the context.
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- Job 15:13
Exposition: Job 15:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:13
Hebrew
כִּֽי־תָשִׁיב אֶל־אֵל רוּחֶךָ וְהֹצֵאתָ מִפִּיךָ מִלִּֽין׃khiy-tashiyv-'el-'el-rvchekha-vehotze'ta-mifiykha-miliyn
KJV: That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
AKJV: That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
ASV: That against God thou turnest thy spirit,
YLT: For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:
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Job 15:13
Verse 13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God - The ideas here seem to be taken from an archer, who turns his eye and his spirit - his desire - against the object which he wishes to hit; and then lets loose his arrow that it may attain the mark.
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Exposition: Job 15:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:14
Hebrew
מָֽה־אֱנוֹשׁ כִּֽי־יִזְכֶּה וְכִֽי־יִצְדַּק יְלוּד אִשָּֽׁה׃mah-'envosh-khiy-yizekheh-vekhiy-yitzedaq-yelvd-'ishah
KJV: What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
AKJV: What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
ASV: What is man, that he should be clean?
YLT: What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
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Verse 14 What is man, that he should be clean? - מה אנוש mah enosh; what is weak, sickly, dying, miserable man, that he should be clean? This is the import of the original word enosh. And - born of a woman, that he should be righteous? - It appears, from many passages in the sacred writings, that natural birth was supposed to be a defilement; and that every man born into the world was in a state of moral pollution. Perhaps the word יצדק yitsdak should be translated, that he should justify himself, and not that he should be righteous.
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Exposition: Job 15:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:15
Hebrew
הֵן בקדשו בִּקְדֹשָׁיו לֹא יַאֲמִין וְשָׁמַיִם לֹא־זַכּוּ בְעֵינָֽיו׃hen-vqdshv-viqedoshayv-lo'-ya'amiyn-veshamayim-lo'-zakhv-ve'eynayv
KJV: Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
AKJV: Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
ASV: Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones;
YLT: Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.
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Verse 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight - The Vulgate has, "Behold, among his saints, none is immutable; and the heavens are not clean in his sight." Coverdale - Beholde, he hath found unfaithfulnesse amonge his owne sanctes, yea the very heavens are unclene in his sight. Eliphaz uses the same mode of speech, Job 4:17-18 (note); where see the notes. Nothing is immutable but God: saints may fall; angels may fall; all their goodness is derived and dependent. The heavens themselves have no purity compared with his.
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Job 15:15
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- Job 4:17-18
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- Vulgate
- Behold
- Beholde
Exposition: Job 15:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:16
Hebrew
אַף כִּֽי־נִתְעָב וְֽנֶאֱלָח אִישׁ־שֹׁתֶה כַמַּיִם עַוְלָֽה׃'af-khiy-nite'av-vene'elach-'iysh-shoteh-khamayim-'avelah
KJV: How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
AKJV: How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water?
ASV: How much less one that is abominable and corrupt,
YLT: Also--surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
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Job 15:16
Job 15:16 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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- Job 15:16
Exposition: Job 15:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:17
Hebrew
אֲחַוְךָ שְֽׁמַֽע־לִי וְזֶֽה־חָזִיתִי וַאֲסַפֵּֽרָה׃'achavekha-shema'-liy-vezeh-chaziytiy-va'asaferah
KJV: I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
AKJV: I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
ASV: I will show thee, hear thou me;
YLT: I shew thee--hearken to me--And this I have seen and declare:
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Verse 17 I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare - Eliphaz is now about to quote a whole collection of wise sayings from the ancients; all good enough in themselves, but sinfully misapplied to the case of Job.
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- Job
Exposition: Job 15:17 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:18
Hebrew
אֲשֶׁר־חֲכָמִים יַגִּידוּ וְלֹא כִֽחֲדוּ מֵאֲבוֹתָֽם׃'asher-chakhamiym-yagiydv-velo'-khichadv-me'avvotam
KJV: Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
AKJV: Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
ASV: (Which wise men have told
YLT: Which the wise declare--And have not hid--from their fathers.
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Job 15:18
Job 15:18 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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- Job 15:18
Exposition: Job 15:18 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:19
Hebrew
לָהֶם לְבַדָּם נִתְּנָה הָאָרֶץ וְלֹא־עָבַר זָר בְּתוֹכָֽם׃lahem-levadam-nitenah-ha'aretz-velo'-'avar-zar-vetvokham
KJV: Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
AKJV: To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
ASV: Unto whom alone the land was given,
YLT: To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:
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Verse 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given - He very likely refers to the Israelites, who got possession of the promised land from God himself; no stranger being permitted to dwell in it, as the old inhabitants were to be exterminated. Some think that Noah and his sons may be intended; as it is certain that the whole earth was given to them, when there were no strangers - no other family of mankind - in being. But, system apart, the words seem to apply more clearly to the Israelites.
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Job 15:19
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- Israelites
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Exposition: Job 15:19 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:20
Hebrew
כָּל־יְמֵי רָשָׁע הוּא מִתְחוֹלֵל וּמִסְפַּר שָׁנִים נִצְפְּנוּ לֶעָרִֽיץ׃khal-yemey-rasha'-hv'-mitechvolel-vmisefar-shaniym-nitzefenv-le'ariytz
KJV: The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
AKJV: The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
ASV: The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days,
YLT: `All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
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Verse 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain - This is a most forcible truth: a life of sin is a life of misery; and he that Will sin Must suffer. One of the Targums gives it a strange turn: - "All the days of the ungodly Esau, he was expected to repent, but he did not repent; and the number of years was hidden from the sturdy Ishmael." The sense of the original, מתחולל mithcholel, is he torments himself: he is a true heautontimoreumenos, or self-tormentor; and he alone is author of his own sufferings, and of his own ruin.
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Job 15:20
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- Targum
- Esau
- Ishmael
Exposition: Job 15:20 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:21
Hebrew
קוֹל־פְּחָדִים בְּאָזְנָיו בַּשָּׁלוֹם שׁוֹדֵד יְבוֹאֶֽנּוּ׃qvol-fechadiym-ve'azenayv-vashalvom-shvoded-yevvo'env
KJV: A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
AKJV: A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
ASV: A sound of terrors is in his ears;
YLT: A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.
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Verse 21 A dreadful sound is in his ears - If he be an oppressor or tyrant, he can have no rest: he is full of suspicions that the cruelties he has exercised on others shall be one day exercised on himself; for even in his prosperity he may expect the destroyer to rush upon him.
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Job 15:21
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Exposition: Job 15:21 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:22
Hebrew
לֹא־יַאֲמִין שׁוּב מִנִּי־חֹשֶׁךְ וצפו וְצָפוּי הוּא אֱלֵי־חָֽרֶב׃lo'-ya'amiyn-shvv-miniy-choshekhe-vtzfv-vetzafvy-hv'-'eley-charev
KJV: He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
AKJV: He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
ASV: He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,
YLT: He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched is he for the sword.
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Verse 22 That he shall return out of darkness - If he take but a few steps in the dark, he expects the dagger of the assassin. This appears to be the only meaning of the place. Some think the passage should be understood to signify that he has no hope of a resurrection; he can never escape from the tomb. This I doubt: in the days of the writer of this book, the doctrine of a future judgment was understood in every part of the East where the knowledge of the true God was diffused.
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Job 15:22
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Exposition: Job 15:22 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:23
Hebrew
נֹדֵד הוּא לַלֶּחֶם אַיֵּה יָדַע ׀ כִּֽי־נָכוֹן בְּיָדוֹ יֽוֹם־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃noded-hv'-lalechem-'ayeh-yada'- -khiy-nakhvon-veyadvo-yvom-choshekhe
KJV: He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
AKJV: He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
ASV: He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?
YLT: He is wandering for bread--`Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
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Verse 23 He wandereth abroad for bread - He is reduced to a state of the utmost indigence, he who was once in affluence requires a morsel of bread, and can scarcely by begging procure enough to sustain life. Is ready at his hand - Is בידו beyado, in his hand - in his possession. As he cannot get bread, he must soon meet death.
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Exposition: Job 15:23 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:24
Hebrew
יְֽבַעֲתֻהוּ צַר וּמְצוּקָה תִּתְקְפֵהוּ כְּמֶלֶךְ ׀ עָתִיד לַכִּידֽוֹר׃yeva'atuhv-tzar-vmetzvqah-titeqefehv-khemelekhe- -'atiyd-lakhiydvor
KJV: Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
AKJV: Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
ASV: Distress and anguish make him afraid;
YLT: Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.
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Verse 24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid - He shall be in continual fear of death; being now brought down by adversity, and stripped of all the goods which he had got by oppression, his life is a mark for the meanest assassin. As a king ready to the battle - The acts of his wickedness and oppression are as numerous as the troops he commands; and when he comes to meet his enemy in the field, he is not only deserted but slain by his troops. How true are the words of the poet: - Ad generum Cereris sine caede et vulnere pauci Descendunt reges, et sicca morte tyranni. Juv. Sat., ver. 112. "For few usurpers to the shades descend By a dry death, or with a quiet end."
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Job 15:24
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- Juv
- Sat
Exposition: Job 15:24 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:25
Hebrew
כִּֽי־נָטָה אֶל־אֵל יָדוֹ וְאֶל־שַׁדַּי יִתְגַּבָּֽר׃khiy-natah-'el-'el-yadvo-ve'el-shaday-yitegavar
KJV: For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
AKJV: For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty.
ASV: Because he hath stretched out his hand against God,
YLT: For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.
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Verse 25 He stretcheth out his hand against God - While in power he thought himself supreme. He not only did not acknowledge God, by whom kings reign, but stretched out his hand - used his power, not to protect, but to oppress those over whom he had supreme rule; and thus strengthened himself against the Almighty.
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Job 15:25
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- Almighty
Exposition: Job 15:25 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:26
Hebrew
יָרוּץ אֵלָיו בְּצַוָּאר בַּעֲבִי גַּבֵּי מָֽגִנָּֽיו׃yarvtz-'elayv-vetzava'r-va'aviy-gavey-maginayv
KJV: He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
AKJV: He runs on him, even on his neck, on the thick bosses of his bucklers:
ASV: He runneth upon him with astiffneck,
YLT: He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.
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Verse 26 He runneth upon him - Calmet has properly observed that this refers to God, who, like a mighty conquering hero, marches against the ungodly, rushes upon him, seizes him by the throat, which the mail by which it is encompassed cannot protect; neither his shield nor spear can save him when the Lord of hosts comes against him.
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Exposition: Job 15:26 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:27
Hebrew
כִּֽי־כִסָּה פָנָיו בְּחֶלְבּוֹ וַיַּעַשׂ פִּימָה עֲלֵי־כָֽסֶל׃khiy-khisah-fanayv-vechelevvo-vaya'ash-fiymah-'aley-khasel
KJV: Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
AKJV: Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes bulges of fat on his flanks.
ASV: Because he hath covered his face with his fatness,
YLT: For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over his confidence.
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Verse 27 Because he covereth his face - He has lived in luxury and excess; and like a man overloaded with flesh, he cannot defend himself against the strong gripe of his adversary. The Arabic, for maketh collops of fat on his flanks, has (Arabic) He lays the Pleiades upon the Hyades, or, He places Surreea upon aiyuk, a proverbial expression for, His ambition is boundless; He aspires as high as heaven; His head touches the stars; or, is like the giants of old, who were fabled to have attempted to scale heaven by placing one high mountain upon another: - Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam Scilicet, atque Ossae frondosum involvere Olympum Ter Pater extructos disjecit fulmine montes. Virg. Geor. i., ver. 281. "With mountains piled on mountains, thrice they strove To scale the steepy battlements of Jove; And thrice his lightning and red thunder play'd, And their demolished works in ruins laid." Dryden. To the lust of power and the schemes of ambition there are no bounds; but see the end of such persons: the haughty spirit precedes a fall; their palaces become desolate; and their heaven is reduced to a chaos.
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- Dryden
- The Arabic
- Hyades
- Pelio Ossam Scilicet
- Virg
- Geor
- Jove
Exposition: Job 15:27 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:28
Hebrew
וַיִּשְׁכּוֹן ׀ עָרִים נִכְחָדוֹת בָּתִּים לֹא־יֵשְׁבוּ לָמוֹ אֲשֶׁר הִתְעַתְּדוּ לְגַלִּֽים׃vayishekhvon- -'ariym-nikhechadvot-vatiym-lo'-yeshevv-lamvo-'asher-hite'atedv-legaliym
KJV: And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
AKJV: And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.
ASV: And he hath dwelt in desolate cities,
YLT: And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.
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Verse 28 He dwelleth in desolate cities - It is sometimes the fate of a tyrant to be obliged to take up his habitation in some of those cities which have been ruined by his wars, and in a house so ruinous as to be ready to fall into heaps. Ancient and modern history afford abundance of examples to illustrate this.
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Job 15:28
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Exposition: Job 15:28 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:29
Hebrew
לֹֽא־יֶעְשַׁר וְלֹא־יָקוּם חֵילוֹ וְלֹֽא־יִטֶּה לָאָרֶץ מִנְלָֽם׃lo'-ye'eshar-velo'-yaqvm-cheylvo-velo'-yiteh-la'aretz-minelam
KJV: He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
AKJV: He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof on the earth.
ASV: He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,
YLT: He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.
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Verse 29 He shall not be rich - The whole of what follows, to the end of the chapter, seems to be directed against Job himself, whom Eliphaz indirectly accuses of having been a tyrant and oppressor. The threatened evils are, 1. He shall not be rich, though he labors greatly to acquire riches. 2. His substance shall not continue - God will blast it, and deprive him of power to preserve it. 3. Neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof - all his works shall perish, for God will blot out his remembrance from under heaven.
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Exposition: Job 15:29 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:30
Hebrew
לֹֽא־יָסוּר ׀ מִנִּי־חֹשֶׁךְ יֹֽנַקְתּוֹ תְּיַבֵּשׁ שַׁלְהָבֶת וְיָסוּר בְּרוּחַ פִּֽיו׃lo'-yasvr- -miniy-choshekhe-yonaqetvo-teyavesh-shalehavet-veyasvr-vervcha-fiyv
KJV: He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
AKJV: He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
ASV: He shall not depart out of darkness;
YLT: He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!
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Verse 30 He shall not depart out of darkness - 4. He shall be in continual afflictions and distress. 5. The flame shall dry up his branches - his children shall be cut off by sudden judgments. 6. He shall pass away by the breath of his mouth; for by the breath of his mouth doth God slay the wicked.
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Exposition: Job 15:30 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:31
Hebrew
אַל־יַאֲמֵן בשו בַּשָּׁיו נִתְעָה כִּי־שָׁוְא תִּהְיֶה תְמוּרָתֽוֹ׃'al-ya'amen-vshv-vashayv-nite'ah-khiy-shave'-tiheyeh-temvratvo
KJV: Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
AKJV: Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense.
ASV: Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself;
YLT: Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.
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Job 15:31
Verse 31 Let not him that is deceived - 7. He has many vain imaginations of obtaining wealth, power, pleasure, and happiness; but he is deceived; and he finds that he has trusted בשוא bashshav, in a lie; and this lie is his recompense.
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Exposition: Job 15:31 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:32
Hebrew
בְּֽלֹא־יוֹמוֹ תִּמָּלֵא וְכִפָּתוֹ לֹא רַעֲנָֽנָה׃velo'-yvomvo-timale'-vekhifatvo-lo'-ra'ananah
KJV: It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
AKJV: It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
ASV: It shall be accomplished before his time,
YLT: Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.
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Job 15:32
Verse 32 It shall be accomplished before his time - I believe the Vulgate gives the true sense: Antequam dies ejus impleantur, peribit; "He shall perish before his time; before his days are completed." 8. He shall be removed by a violent death, and not live out half his days. 9. And his branch shall not be green - there shall be no scion from his roots; all his posterity shall fail.
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Job 15:32
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Vulgate
Exposition: Job 15:32 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:33
Hebrew
יַחְמֹס כַּגֶּפֶן בִּסְרוֹ וְיַשְׁלֵךְ כַּזַּיִת נִצָּתֽוֹ׃yachemos-khagefen-viservo-veyashelekhe-khazayit-nitzatvo
KJV: He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
AKJV: He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
ASV: He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine,
YLT: He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.
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Job 15:33
Verse 33 He shall shake off his unripe grape - 10. Whatever children he may have, they shall never survive him, nor come to mature age. They shall be like wind-fall grapes and blasted olive blossoms. As the vine and olive, which are among the most useful trees, affording wine and oil, so necessary for the worship of God and the comfort of man, are mentioned here, they may be intended to refer to the hopeful progeny of the oppressor; but who fell, like the untimely grape or the blasted olive flower, without having the opportunity of realizing the public expectation.
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Exposition: Job 15:33 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:34
Hebrew
כִּֽי־עֲדַת חָנֵף גַּלְמוּד וְאֵשׁ אָכְלָה אָֽהֳלֵי־שֹֽׁחַד׃khiy-'adat-chanef-galemvd-ve'esh-'akhelah-'aholey-shochad
KJV: For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
AKJV: For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
ASV: For the company of the godless shall be barren,
YLT: For the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.
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Verse 34 The congregation of hypocrites - 11. Job is here classed with hypocrites, or rather the impious of all kinds. The congregation, or עדת adath, society, of such, shall be desolate, or a barren rock, גלמוד galmud. See this Arabic word explained in the note on Job 3:7 (note). Fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery - 12. Another insinuation against Job, that he had perverted justice and judgment, and had taken bribes.
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Job 15:34
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 3:7
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Job
Exposition: Job 15:34 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 15:35
Hebrew
הָרֹה עָמָל וְיָלֹד אָוֶן וּבִטְנָם תָּכִין מִרְמָֽה׃haroh-'amal-veyalod-'aven-vvitenam-takhiyn-miremah
KJV: They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
AKJV: They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.
ASV: They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity,
YLT: To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.
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Verse 35 They conceive mischief - The figure here is both elegant and impressive. The wicked conceive mischief, from the seed which Satan sows in their hearts; in producing which they travail with many pangs, (for sin is a sore labor), and at last their womb produces fraud or deception. This is an accursed birth, from an iniquitous conception. St. James gives the figure at full length, most beautifully touched in all its parts: When lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death; Jam 1:15 (note), where see the note. Poor Job! what a fight of affliction had he to contend with! His body wasted and tortured with sore disease; his mind harassed by Satan; and his heart wrung with the unkindness, and false accusations of his friends. No wonder he was greatly agitated, often distracted, and sometimes even thrown off his guard. However, all his enemies were chained; and beyond that chain they could not go. God was his unseen Protector, and did not suffer his faithful servant to be greatly moved.
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- St
- Satan
- However
- Protector
Exposition: Job 15:35 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
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31
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Canonical references surfaced in commentary
- Job 15:1-13
- Job 15:14-16
- Job 15:1
- Act 27:14
- Job 15:2
- Job 15:3
- Job 15:4
- Gen 3:1
- Job 15:5
- Job 15:6
- Job 15:7
- Job 15:8
- Job 15:9
- Job 15:10
- Job 15:11
- Job 15:13
- Job 15:12
- Job 15:14
- Job 4:17-18
- Job 15:15
- Job 15:16
- Job 15:17
- Job 15:18
- Job 15:19
- Job 15:20
- Job 15:21
- Job 15:22
- Job 15:23
- Job 15:24
- Job 15:25
- Job 15:26
- Job 15:27
- Job 15:28
- Job 15:29
- Job 15:30
- Job 15:31
- Job 15:32
- Job 15:33
- Job 3:7
- Job 15:34
- Job 15:35
Named authorities or texts surfaced in commentary
- Levant
- Mediterranean Sea
- Eliphaz
- Maker
- Ovid
- Ray
- Judge
- Literally
- Or
- Targum
- Zophar
- Vulgate
- Behold
- Beholde
- Job
- Israelites
- But
- Esau
- Ishmael
- Juv
- Sat
- Almighty
- Dryden
- The Arabic
- Hyades
- Pelio Ossam Scilicet
- Virg
- Geor
- Jove
- St
- Satan
- However
- Protector
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Daniel
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Hosea
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Joel
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Amos
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Obadiah
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Jonah
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Micah
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Nahum
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Habakkuk
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Zephaniah
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Haggai
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Zechariah
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Malachi
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Matthew
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Mark
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Luke
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John
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Acts
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Romans
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1 Corinthians
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2 Corinthians
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Galatians
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Ephesians
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Philippians
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Colossians
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1 Thessalonians
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2 Thessalonians
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1 Timothy
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2 Timothy
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Titus
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Philemon
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Hebrews
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James
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1 Peter
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2 Peter
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1 John
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2 John
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3 John
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Jude
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Revelation
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Job 15:1
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Canonical locus
Job 15:1
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