An Old Testament commentary for English readers, by various writers, ed. by C.J. Ellicott, 4. köideCharles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester) Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1884 |
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... called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them . ( 5 ) And it was so , when the days of their feasting were gone about , that Job sent and sanctified them , and rose up early in the morning , and offered burnt offerings ...
... called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them . ( 5 ) And it was so , when the days of their feasting were gone about , that Job sent and sanctified them , and rose up early in the morning , and offered burnt offerings ...
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... a Naamah or Naaman , of which there were several ( e.g. , Gen. iv . 22 ; 1 Kings xiv . 21 ; Gen. xlvi . 21 ; Num . xxvi . 40 ; 2 Kings v . 1 ) , as names of persons or places called after them . Job's Friends Visit him . JOB , III . a 9.
... a Naamah or Naaman , of which there were several ( e.g. , Gen. iv . 22 ; 1 Kings xiv . 21 ; Gen. xlvi . 21 ; Num . xxvi . 40 ; 2 Kings v . 1 ) , as names of persons or places called after them . Job's Friends Visit him . JOB , III . a 9.
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... called the sea , was carefully watched and guarded by dykes that its overflow might not destroy the land . So Job exclaims , " Am I like the sea , or one of its monsters - like that Leviathan which Thou hast made to take his pastime ...
... called the sea , was carefully watched and guarded by dykes that its overflow might not destroy the land . So Job exclaims , " Am I like the sea , or one of its monsters - like that Leviathan which Thou hast made to take his pastime ...
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... called , and he had answered Pleiades , Amos 5. 8 . 1 Heb . , Ash , Cesil , and Cimah . b ch . 5. 9 . But filleth me with bitterness . ( 19 ) If I speak of strength , lo , he is strong : And if of judgment , who shall set me a time to ...
... called , and he had answered Pleiades , Amos 5. 8 . 1 Heb . , Ash , Cesil , and Cimah . b ch . 5. 9 . But filleth me with bitterness . ( 19 ) If I speak of strength , lo , he is strong : And if of judgment , who shall set me a time to ...
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... called on God , and He answered him . This is either the character Job claims for himself , or it is the supposed taunt of his friends - the righteous and the perfect a laughing - stock , or , the righteous and the perfect might be a ...
... called on God , and He answered him . This is either the character Job claims for himself , or it is the supposed taunt of his friends - the righteous and the perfect a laughing - stock , or , the righteous and the perfect might be a ...
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afflicted Ahaz allusion Assyrian Authorised Version Babylon Behold better blessing Book of Job Book of Proverbs chap Chron clause Comp covenant darkness David death Deut Divine earth Edom Eliphaz enemies evil Exod expression eyes Ezek faith favour fear fool give glory God's hand hath heart heathen heaven Hebrew word holy iniquity Isaiah Israel Jehovah Jerusalem Job's Judah judge judgment king lips literally LORD margin Matt meaning mercy Moab mouth nations Note parallelism passage poem poet praise prayer probably prophet Prov PROVERBS psalm psalmist reference rejoice rendering righteous seems Selah sense Solomon song Song of degrees soul speak spirit Syriac thine things thou hast thou shalt thought tion translated truth unto thee verb verse viii Vulg Vulgate wicked wisdom wise xvii xviii xxii xxvi xxxii Zion
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Page 225 - Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Page 8 - 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 202 - For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children : 6 That the generation to come might know them, Even the children which should be born ; Who should arise and declare them to their children : 7 That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments...
Page 28 - For there is hope of .a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 371 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Page 402 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Page 364 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 378 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked ; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean ; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 457 - For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Page 220 - Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty ; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.