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Job 30:3

Job 30:3

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

and interpret it either of his enemies, who pursued after him, and had no rest in their beds, but went out in the night to inquire and hear what they could learn concerning him and his illness, whether it was become greater ; or who devoured him by their calumnies and detractions, and could not sleep unless they did mischief to him; see Pr 4:16; or of the worms with which his body was covered, and which were continually gnawing, never rested, nor suffered him to take any rest; the Targum is, they that gnash at me rest not.

In Tishbi, p. 67. So Lud. Capellus in loc. Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 4. p 764. yqrew "et rodentia mea", Schultens; "fugientia membra mea", so some in Michaelis. Vid.

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