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If he is destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, `I have not seen you.`
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The Total Erasure of the Wicked
Commentators explain that this verse uses the powerful image of a plant being so utterly destroyed that the very ground it grew in denies its existence. This illustrates the complete and final erasure of the wicked or hypocrite, whose influence and memory are wiped away as if they had never been.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If he destroy him from his place—The particle here that is rendered "if" (אם 'ı̂m) is often used to denote emphasis, and means here…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If he destroy him from his place If the sun when he is risen strikes the tree with such vehement heat that it wither…
Bildad speaks insightfully about hypocrites and evildoers, and the fatal end of all their hopes and joys. He proves this truth—the destruction of t…
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13th Century
Catholic
In the preceding verses, Bildad of Shuah defended the same opinion that Eliphaz the Temanite had proposed: that those who are divinely punished for…
