Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 23:9

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9. Rather, "To the north." work —God's glorious works are especially seen towards the north region of the sky by one in the northern hemisphere. The antithesis is between God working and yet not being beheld: as in :- , between "He goeth by, " and "I see Him not. " If the Hebrew bears it, the parallelism to the second clause is better suited by translating, as UMBREIT, "doth hide himself"; but then the antithesis to "behold" would be lost. right hand —"in the south." hideth —appropriately, of the unexplored south, then regarded as uninhabitable because of its heat (see Job 34:29 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-10" class="com-number"

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