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The eye which saw him shall see him no more, Neither shall his place any more see him.
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Job's Words Used Against Him
Scholars Albert Barnes and John Gill highlight a crucial piece of irony: Zophar is using language almost identical to what Job himself used in chapter 7. Job lamented his own impending disappearance, and now Zophar cruelly turns those same words into a description of the wicked's fate, implicitly categorizing Job among them.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The eye also which saw him - This is almost exactly the language which Job uses respecting himself. See (Job 7:8), note; ([Ref…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more In this world, concerned in the affairs of life, and busy in wo…
Zophar's discourse is about the certain misery of the wicked. The triumph of the wicked and the joy of the hypocrite are fleeting. The pleasures an…
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13th Century
Catholic
After Zophar heard Job’s opinion about the hope of a future life, he seems to have acquiesced, contradicting nothing in his third response. Yet the…
