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Job 9:9

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

and take the phrase to be the same as that, "before the sun"; Ps 72:17; and to denote the perpetuity and duration of their being crushed, which would be as long as the sun or Arcturus continued, that is, for ever; but either of the above senses is best, especially the last of them.

Arrian. Epictet. l. 1. c. 1. Theodor. Gadareus, apud Sueton. Vit. Tiber. c. 57. Mwakdy "conterent eos", Montanus, Mercerus, Michaelis, Schultens; "sub trinitas personarum", Schmidt; "angeli", Mercerus; so Sephorno and R.

Simeon Bar Tzemach; "calamitates", Vatablus; so some in Bar Tzemach. ve ynpl "conam verme", Coceius; so the Targum and Bar Tzemach. "Antequam tinea", Junius & Tremellius; "citius quam tinea", Piscator.

shtov tropon, Sept. "instar tineae", Noldius, Schmidt; so Aben Ezra and Broughton.

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