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If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
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God as a Terrifying Hunter
Job uses the powerful and disturbing image of God hunting him like a lion. Commentators explain this isn't a single attack, but a relentless pursuit. When Job says God shows Himself "marvellous," he means God's methods of affliction are shockingly creative and incomprehensible. He feels stalked and tormented by a God whose actions are terrifyingly unpredictable.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For it increaseth - Our translators understand this as meaning that the calamities of Job, so far from becoming less, were constant…
19th Century
Anglican
For it increaseth. —This verse is very obscure. Some understand it as follows: “But is it so glorious a thing that You sh…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For it increases That is, the affliction increases; which is a reason why pity should be shown him, seeing his troub…
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Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigor. His gloom, unb…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, Job sought the cause of his punishment by assuming he was innocent. Now, he proceeds to ask whether he is being punished because he is …