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"However doesn`t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
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A Famously Difficult Verse
Scholars from Albert Barnes to Charles Ellicott are unanimous in declaring this verse exceptionally obscure and difficult to translate. Ellicott calls it "hopelessly uncertain," while Barnes notes that nearly every commentator offers a different interpretation. This serves as a reminder that some parts of Scripture are profoundly mysterious, and it's okay to find them confusing.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
However, he will not stretch out his hand to the grave—Margin, heap. In our common version this verse does not convey a very clear …
19th Century
Anglican
Though they cry in his destruction. —This is a very obscure verse. Some render it: “Surely against a ruinous heap he will…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
However he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave Or, "verily" F8, truly he will not I am well assu…
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Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin that, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join wit…
13th Century
Catholic
After listing the many prosperous things he had enjoyed in the past, Job now lists the adversities he was suffering. He begins by showing that, in …
