Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 6:16

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16. blackish —literally, "Go as a mourner in black clothing" ( :- ). A vivid and poetic image to picture the stream turbid and black with melted ice and snow, descending from the mountains into the valley. In the [second] clause, the snow dissolved is, in the poet's view, "hid" in the flood [UMBREIT]. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-17" class="com-number"