Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 36:20

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20. Desire —pant for. Job had wished for death ( :- , c.). night — ( :- ). when —rather, "whereby." cut off —literally, "ascend," as the corn cut and lifted upon the wagon or stack ( Job 36:26 ) so "cut off," "disappear." in their place —literally, "under themselves"; so, without moving from their place, on the spot, suddenly ( Job 40:12 ) [MAURER]. UMBREIT'S translation: "To ascend (which is really, as thou wilt find to thy cost, to descend ) to the people below " (literally, "under themselves"), answers better to the parallelism and the Hebrew. Thou pantest for death as desirable, but it is a "night" or region of darkness; thy fancied ascent (amelioration) will prove a descent (deterioration) ( Job 10:22 ); therefore desire it not. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-21" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-job-36-001

절 (explains)

bible-text/job-36-20

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological