job 23:17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. - Free Bible Online

job 23:17 But I am not silenced by the darkness, Nor deep gloom [which] covers [me].


      17. Because I was not taken away by death from the evil to come (literally, "from before the face of the darkness," Isa 57:1). Alluding to the words of Eliphaz (Job 22:11), "darkness," that is, calamity.
      cut off--rather, in the Arabic sense, brought to the land of silence; my sad complaint hushed in death [UMBREIT]. "Darkness" in the second clause, not the same Hebrew word as in the first, "cloud," "obscurity." Instead of "covering the cloud (of evil) from my face," He "covers" me with it (Job 22:11).

JFB.


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