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Job 1:18

Job 1:18

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

Some render it, "upon his food" ; his meat, a curse going along with it, while he is eating it, his table becoming a snare unto him; or upon his wealth and riches, he is endeavouring to fill his belly or satisfy himself with; and others, "upon his flesh", as the Targum; or "into his flesh"; as Broughton, and so many of the Jewish commentators meaning his body, filling it with diseases, so that there is no soundness in it, but is in pain, and wasting, and consuming; and Job's case may be referred to, his body being full of boils and ulcers.

wb xlvy "mittet in eum", Pagninus, Montanus, Schmidt; so Mercerus, Piscator. wmwxlb "in cibum illius", Tigurine version.

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