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Job 20:17

Job 20:17

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

and a large increase of oil and wine, and all temporal worldly good; amidst the plenty of which such die:and his bones are moistened with marrow; not dried up through a broken spirit, or with grief and trouble, and through the decays of old age; but, being full of marrow, are moist, and firm and strong; and so it intimates, that such, at the time when death seizes them, are of an hale, healthful, robust, and strong constitution; see .

See Kimchi, Sepher Shorash. rad. Nje, and Jarchi and Ben Melech in loc.

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