Bible Commentaries
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Job 17
breath = spirit. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.
is = has become.
corrupt = consumed.
extinct. Hebrew. Za"ak. Occurs only here.
the graves. The Septuagint reads as in translation below.
Lay down now = Appoint it so, I pray.
put me, &c. = be thou my bond. Compare Isaiah 38:14 ("undertake").
who is he . . . ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. The answer is given in Job 17:4 by Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-6), "[not they]".
strike hands. The idiom for making a compact. Compare Proverbs 6:1; Proverbs 11:15; Proverbs 17:18; Proverbs 22:26, &c.
He that, &c. Supply Ellipsis, as in translation below; and treat Job 17:5 as a quotation.
children = sons.
fail = look in vain.
aforetime = in former times. Compare Ruth 4:7,
tabret = a drum. Hebrew. topheth. To the sound and warning of which people gave heed. See note on 1 Samuel 10:5. After this verse imagine a pause.
you. So some codices, with Syriac and "Vulgate, which Authorized Version and Revised Version followed. Other codices read "them".
the pit. Hebrew. Sheol. App-35. Compare Job 17:13.
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