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Job 29:24

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29:24 If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; 1 

and they did not cause the light of my face to darken. 2 

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[29:24]  1 tn The connection of this clause with the verse is difficult. The line simply reads: “[if] I would smile at them, they would not believe.” Obviously something has to be supplied to make sense out of this. The view adopted here makes the most sense, namely, that when he smiled at people, they could hardly believe their good fortune. Other interpretations are strained, such as Kissane’s, “If I laughed at them, they believed not,” meaning, people rejected the views that Job laughed at.

[29:24]  2 tn The meaning, according to Gordis, is that they did nothing to provoke Job’s displeasure.



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