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Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.
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A Dishonorable End
Commentators explain that for the wicked, even death brings no dignity. The phrase "buried in death" poetically suggests they are left unburied or have a hasty, obscure burial with no ceremony. Their own widows do not weep, signifying a complete collapse of their social standing and legacy, which was considered a terrible calamity in the ancient world.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Those that remain of him – Those that survive him.
Shall be buried in death – Hebrew: “shall be buried BY death” (במות
19th Century
Anglican
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death. —That is, as the context shows, it shall be obscure, and excite no sym…
Baptist
He buildeth his house as a moth, which makes its home in the cloth, but the servant's brush knocks it all out and destroys the moth's chil…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Those that remain of him Of the wicked man after his death; or such that remain, and have escaped the sword and fami…
Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were …
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, Job had successfully refuted the speech of Bildad, who had cited divine power against him as if Job were ignorant of its greatness. Whe…
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