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Obadiah 1:9

Obadiah 1:9

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

O Teman; Septuagint, οἱ ἐκ θαιμάν, "those from Thaeman;" Vulgate, a meridic, taking the word as an appellative; so the Chaldee. The southern district of Idumea was so called (see note on ).

One of Job's friends, and the cleverest of them, was a Temanite (). To the end that. This judicial blindness is inflicted in order that all may perish. By slaughter. Murder at the hands of the enemy.

The LXX; Vulgate, and Syriac connect these words with the following verse. But the Masoretic punctuation, as in the Anglican Version, is doubtless correct (see Keil).

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