21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakenetli the strength of the mighty.

22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way. 25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

24. D to turn aside. nyn to wander. n without order, a waste place, from an waste.*

25. vun to feel again and again, WD to search. nyn to wander. 10 to be intoxicated.

*This verse presents what must have been an exact picture of the condition of those chiefs or leaders of different clans in Arabia; who, after a season of prosperity, are in their turn foiled by others, and wander dispirited, in trackless ways, to avoid their enemies.

2 D

JOB XIII.

יהן כל ראתה עיני שמעה אזני ותבן לה: 2 כדעתכם ידעתי גם אני לא נפל אנכי מכם: והוכח אל אל 3 אולם אני אל שדי אדבר

4 אחפץ: ואולם אתם טפלי שקר רפאי אלל תחרישון ותהי לכם החרש יתן 5 כלכם: מי 6 לחכמה: שמעו נא תוכחתי ורבות שפתי הקשיבו: 7,8 הלאל תדברו עולה ולו תדברו רמיה: הפניו 9 תשאון אם לאל תריבון: הטוב כי יחקר אתכם יוכית הוכח 10 אם כהתל באנוש תהתלו בו: 11 אתכם אם בסתר פנים תשאון: הלא שאתו אתכם ופחדו יפל עליכם: זכרניכם 12 תבעת אתכם ופחדו 13 משלי אפר לגבי חמר גביכם: החרישו ממני

9

.to discern בן .to weigh און .to hear שמע .to reflect ענה .to see ראה .1 .to fall נפל .to know ידע .2

3. D to compress." the Bountiful, nw a pourer. Пɔ to manifest, in Hiph. to cause to see, to reason. yon to desire.

4.

to connect together. "pw to speak falsely. N to heal. 448 naught, from no, to prevent.

5. na to give. W to be silent. D to be wise.

6. you to hear. in proof, a reason, from пɔ to manifest. 27 to

7.727 to speak, nhy to ascend, hence by a yoke of dominion, and by

.to hearken קשב .to crush, a lift שפה .contend

-to de רמה deceit, from רמיה .ofofhression, injustice, iniquity עולה and

fraud.

to פנים to take or bear, but with נשא .to turn פנה faces, from פנים .8

regard with favour. 1 to contend.

JOB XIII.

1 LO, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto

you.

3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

5 O that you would altogether hold your peace, and it should be your wisdom!

6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

7 Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? 8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. 11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

9. to be or do good. pn to investigate. nn to mock, or trifle.

.to be infirm אנש a man, from אנוש

10. n to reprove. D to lie hidden. Nu vide ver. 8.

11. s elevation, majesty, from to lift up; or

desolation,

to נפל .to fear, to tremble פחד .to terrify בעת .to confound שאה from

fall.

12. 11 memory, from 1 to remember.* up to rule, to liken, a resemblance. 8 ashes, from 5 to break. the back.

disturb.

mud, 10

* "Your remembrances " (your quoting of memorable say

14 ואדברה אני ויעבר עלי מה: על מה אשא בשרי 15 בשני ונפשי אשים בכפי: הן יקטלני לא איחל 16 אך דרכי אל פניו אוכיח: גם הוא, לי לישועה שמוע מלתי שמעו לפניו חנף יבוא: 17 כי לא לפניו

18 ואחותי באזניכם: הנה נא ערכתי משפט ידעתי הוא יריב עמדי כי עתה 19 כי אני אצדק: מי הוא יריב 20 אחריש ואגוע: אך שתים אל תעש עמדי או 21 מפניך לא אסתר: כפך מעלי הרחק ואימתך אל

22 תבעתני: וקרא ואנכי אענה או אדבר והשיבני: וחטאתי הדיעני: 23 כמה לי עונות וחטאות פשעי 24,25 למה פניך תסתיר ותחשבני לאויב לך: העלה 26 נדף תערוץ ואת קש יבש תרדף: כי תכתב

13. n to be silent.

14. N to take.

.to bend כפה .fut

to speak. y to pass over.

to spread. a tooth, from 7 to renew. D to

15. hup to slay. ↳ to hope. yet indeed, from 1 to strike. 177

to go away. I to turn.

16. Da moreover. ny

to come.

' to open one's cause.

salvation, from yo to save. to pollute.

17. you to hear. n a word, from p to talk. nins a declaration, from n to show or declare. ¡is an ear, to weigh.

to ידע .to judge שפט judgment, cause, from משפט .to order ערך .18

know. pry to justify, declare just, to acquit.

19. to contend. wn to be silent. y to expire.

ings) are like ashes, or dirt; your bodies □ your heaps, eminencies, your strongest arguments, to heaps of clay, soon washed away." J. Taylor.

13 Hold your peace, let me alone that I may speak, and let it come on me what will.

14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

16 He also shall be my salvation; for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

17 Hear diligently my speech and my declaration with your ears. 18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be

justified.

19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

20 Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee:

21 Withdraw thine hand far from me; and let not thy dread make me afraid:

22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? 25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

20. D'n two, from n to repeat. nvy to do. na to turn. AND to hide.

אימה .to be at a distance רחק .to bend כפה the hand, from כף .21

terror, from D's terrible, which may be from or on to tumultuate. nya to terrify.

22. p to call. My to answer. 18 or, from to choose. 737 to speak. w to render.

23. My to pervert. On to deviate. yo to prevaricate. Y to know.
24. to turn. to conceal. on to reckon. ' an enemy.

25. nhy a leaf, to

ascend, 771 to scatter. yw to break. wp stubble, to collect. W to dry. to follow.

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