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One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet.
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An Uncomfortable Truth
Job states a plain but uncomfortable truth: some people die at the absolute peak of their lives, enjoying perfect health and prosperity. Commentators note this is a direct challenge to his friends' simplistic theology that wickedness always leads to visible suffering and ruin in this life. Job is grounding his argument in the observable reality of the world.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
One dies in his full strength - Margin, “very perfection,” or, “in the strength of his perfection.” The meaning is, that he dies in the ve…
19th Century
Anglican
One dieth. —Job enlarges on the inequality of human fate, showing that death is the only equaliser.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
One dieth in his full strength Man is born a weak feeble creature, and it is by degrees, and through various stages …
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Job had described the prosperity of wicked people; in these verses he opposes this to what his friends had maintained about their certain ruin in t…
13th Century
Catholic
Since Job had previously established that evil men sometimes experience prosperity and at other times adversity in this life, which causes doubt, h…
