Job 36:1
Job 26:1--27:23
[How has thou.]
Bildad had produced no argument to refute Job's doctrine; and therefore Job ironically admires the assistance which Bildad had given to his friends in their extremity, and the instruction he had afforded him in his perplexity.
helped <05826> [helped.]
advised <03289> [counselled.]
abundantly <07230> [plentifully.]
spirit <05397> [whose spirit.]
dead tremble <07496 02342> [Dead things.]
Or, "The giants {repha‹m} are in anguish under the waters and their inhabitants;" probably in allusion to the destruction of the earth by the deluge.
live <07931> [and. or, with.]
underworld <07585> [Hell.]
destruction <011> [destruction.]
locks <06887> [bindeth up.]
clouds <05645> [thick clouds.]
clouds <06051> [and the cloud.]
marks out <02328> [compassed.]
light <0216> [until.]
boundary ... light ... darkness <02822 08503 0216> [day and night come to an end. Heb. end of light with darkness.]
pillars <05982> [pillars.]
amazed <08539> [are astonished.]
stills <07280> [divideth.]
cut <04272> [he smiteth.]
Rahab <07293> [the proud. Heb. pride.]
breath <07307> [his spirit.]
fleeing serpent <01281 05175> [the crooked serpent.]
whisper <08102> [how little.]
thunder <07482> [the thunder.]
Job <0347> [Job.]
again <03254> [continued. Heb. added to take up.]
surely ... God <02416 0410> [God liveth.]
denied <05493> [taken.]
life bitter <05315 04843> [vexed my soul. Heb. made my soul bitter.]
breath ... God <0433 07307> [the spirit of God. that is, the breath which God gave him.]
right <06663> [justify.]
set aside <05493> [I will not.]
maintain .......... conscience <02388 07503> [I hold fast.]
as ... as ... live <03824> [my heart.]
long <03117> [so long as I live. Heb. from my days.]
God <0410> [Will God.]
cry <06818> [his cry.]
delight <06026> [delight.]
times <06256> [will he always.]
teach <03384> [teach.]
power <03027> [by the hand. or, being in the hand, etc. that which.]
seen <02372> [ye yourselves.]
meaningless <01892> [altogether.]
portion <02506> [the portion.]
inheritance <05159> [the heritage.]
children <01121> [children.]
offspring <06631> [his offspring.]
survive <08300> [Those.]
widows <0490> [his widows.]
piles <06651> [heap up.]
stores ... clothing <04403 03559> [prepare raiment.]
D'Herbelot tells us, that Bokhten, an illustrious poet of Cufah, in the 9th century, had so many presents made him, that at his death he was found possessed of 100 suits of clothes, 200 shirts, and 500 turbans.
righteous <06662> [but the just.]
moth's <06211> [as a moth.]
hut <05521> [as a booth.]
bed <07901> [shall lie.]
more <0622> [gathered.]
opens <06491> [he openeth.]
[he is not.]
Terrors <01091> [Terrors.]
whirlwind <05492> [a tempest.]
east wind carries <06921 05375> [east wind.]
sweeps <08175> [a storm.]
It hurls <07993> [For God.]
pity <02550> [not spare.]
hurls itself ........ flees headlong <01272> [he would fain flee. Heb. in fleeing he would flee.]
claps <05606> [clap.]
hisses ...... place <08319 04725> [hiss him.]
