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"But the mountain falling comes to nothing; The rock is removed out of its place;
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An Image of Utter Finality
Job uses powerful images of finality to express his despair. Commentators explain that just as a falling mountain crumbles to nothing and a dislodged rock is never replaced, Job feels human life ends with absolute permanence. He chooses the most stable objects in nature to illustrate how hopeless and irreversible death seems to him in his suffering.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And surely the mountain falling - Margin, “Fades.” The sense of this is, that the hope of man in regard to living again, must certa…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought Job here returns to his former subject of the irreparable state of …
Job's faith and hope spoke, and grace appeared to revive; but depravity again prevailed. He represents God as carrying matters to an extreme agains…
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13th Century
Catholic
After Job has presented his idea about the future resurrection, he now strengthens it with plausible arguments. The first argument comes from a com…
