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He doesn`t believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword.
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The Inner Prison of Fear
Commentators explain that Eliphaz is describing the inner life of a wicked person. The 'darkness' represents a state of constant calamity and anxiety, not just a lack of light. A guilty conscience creates a perpetual sense of dread, where the person despairs of ever returning to safety or peace, living in constant fear.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness - Darkness is used in the Bible, as elsewhere, to denote calamity. The meanin…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness When he lies down at night he despairs of ever seeing the ligh…
Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable, from which he would infer that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore that Jo…
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13th Century
Catholic
After Eliphaz had censured Job for provoking God to an argument, which he thought amounted to a presumption of wisdom, he now censures him for a pr…
