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Look away from him, that he may rest, Until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
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A Cry for Respite, Not Abandonment
Job's request for God to "look away" is not a desire for God to abandon him. Commentators explain it as a desperate plea for a break from what feels like intense, painful divine scrutiny. He is asking God to turn away His "angry frowning countenance," as one scholar puts it, and grant him a moment of relief from overwhelming suffering.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Turn from him - – שׁעה (shâ‛âh). Look away from, or turn away the eyes (Isaiah 22:4). Job had represented the …
19th Century
Anglican
Accomplish. —Rather, have pleasure in; rejoice at the day when his wages are paid him. Job had used the same image before…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Turn from him, that he may rest From this short lived afflicted man, whose days are limited, and will soon be at an …
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Job enlarges upon the condition of man, addressing himself also to God. Every man of Adam's fallen race is short-lived. All his show of beauty, hap…
13th Century
Catholic
Job had wondered about God's high regard for humanity, given our frail and unhappy condition in this present life. This wonder, however, would ceas…
