Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 8:16

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16. before the sun —that is, he (the godless) is green only before the sun rises; but he cannot bear its heat, and withers. So succulent plants like the gourd ( Jonah 4:7 ; Jonah 4:8 ). But the widespreading in the garden does not quite accord with this. Better, "in sunshine"; the sun representing the smiling fortune of the hypocrite, during which he wondrously progresses [UMBREIT]. The image is that of weeds growing in rank luxuriance and spreading over even heaps of stones and walls, and then being speedily torn away. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-17" class="com-number"

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