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"Earth, don`t cover my blood, Let my cry have no place to rest.
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A Cry for Vindication
Job makes a passionate appeal to the physical world, personifying the earth and asking it not to conceal the injustice done to him. Commentators explain that 'blood' here likely symbolizes the violent wrongs he has suffered. His cry is for his innocence and suffering to be publicly known and not forgotten, a plea for cosmic vindication.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
O earth — Passionate appeals to the earth are not uncommon in the Scriptures; see the notes at Isaiah 1:2. Such appeals indicate de…
19th Century
Anglican
Let my cry have no place. —That is, “Let there be no place in the wide earth where my cry will not reach: let it have no …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
O earth, cover not you my blood This is an imprecation, wishing that if he had been guilty of any capital crime, of such …
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Job's condition was very deplorable; but he had the testimony of his conscience for him, that he never allowed himself in any gross sin. No one was…
13th Century
Catholic
Eliphaz had spoken harshly against Job in his answer, so Job begins his speech by accusing him of providing unfitting consolation. First, because h…
