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Text -- Job 29:1-19 (NET)
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Context
IV. Job’s Concluding Soliloquy (29:1-31:40)
Job Recalls His Former ConditionJob’s Benevolence
29:11 “As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,
29:12 for I rescued the poor who cried out for help , and the orphan who had no one to assist him;
29:13 the blessing of the dying man descended on me , and I made the widow’s heart rejoice ;
29:14 I put on righteousness and it clothed me, my just dealing was like a robe and a turban ;
29:15 I was eyes for the blind and feet for the lame ;
29:16 I was a father to the needy , and I investigated the case of the person I did not know ;
29:17 I broke the fangs of the wicked , and made him drop his prey from his teeth .
Job’s Confidence
29:18 “Then I thought , ‘I will die in my own home , my days as numerous as the grains of sand .
29:19 My roots reach the water , and the dew lies on my branches all night long.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Job |
Popularity |
JOB, BOOK OF |
PROVERBS, THE BOOK OF |
Poor |
Beneficence |
PSALMS, BOOK OF |
God |
Dew |
MOUTH |
DIADEM |
Children |
Oil |
RIVER |
Orphan |
WASH; WASHING |
AGRICULTURE |
SHINE |
SAND |
Widow |
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NET Notes -> Job 29:1; Job 29:1; Job 29:2; Job 29:2; Job 29:2; Job 29:2; Job 29:2; Job 29:3; Job 29:3; Job 29:3; Job 29:3; Job 29:3; Job 29:4; Job 29:4; Job 29:5; Job 29:5; Job 29:6; Job 29:6; Job 29:6; Job 29:6; Job 29:7; Job 29:8; Job 29:10; Job 29:11; Job 29:11; Job 29:12; Job 29:13; Job 29:13; Job 29:14; Job 29:14; Job 29:16; Job 29:17; Job 29:17; Job 29:18; Job 29:18
NET Notes: Job 29:1 The verse uses a verbal hendiadys: “and he added (וַיֹּסֶף, vayyosef)…to raise (ש...
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NET Notes: Job 29:2 The imperfect verb here has a customary nuance – “when God would watch over me” (back then), or “when God used to watch over m...
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NET Notes: Job 29:3 The accusative (“darkness”) is here an adverbial accusative of place, namely, “in the darkness,” or because he was successfull...
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NET Notes: Job 29:4 The word סוֹד (sod) in this verse is an infinitive construct, prefixed with the temporal preposition and followed by a subject...
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NET Notes: Job 29:5 Some commentators suggest that עִמָּדִי (’immadi, “with me”) of the second colon of ...
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NET Notes: Job 29:6 The MT reads literally, “and the rock was poured out [passive participle] for me as streams of oil.” There are some who delete the word ...
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NET Notes: Job 29:7 In the public square. The area referred to here should not be thought of in terms of modern western dimensions. The wide space, plaza, or public squar...
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NET Notes: Job 29:8 The verb means “to hide; to withdraw.” The young men out of respect would withdraw or yield the place of leadership to Job (thus the trans...
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NET Notes: Job 29:10 The verb here is “hidden” as well as in v. 8. But this is a strange expression for voices. Several argue that the word was erroneously ins...
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NET Notes: Job 29:11 The main clause is introduced by the preterite with the vav (ו) consecutive (see GKC 327 §111.h); the clause before it is therefore tempora...
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NET Notes: Job 29:12 The negative introduces a clause that serves as a negative attribute; literally the following clause says, “and had no helper” (see GKC 48...
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NET Notes: Job 29:16 The word “father” does not have a wide range of meanings in the OT. But there are places that it is metaphorical, especially in a legal se...
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NET Notes: Job 29:17 “I made [him] drop.” The verb means “to throw; to cast,” throw in the sense of “to throw away.” But in the context...
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