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Job 21:13

Job 21:13

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

or "there are no bands until their death" ; they have no straits nor difficulties all their life long, no distempers nor diseases which may be called "bonds", Lu 13:12, till they come to die: the Vulgate Latin version is, "there is no respect to their death"; they take no notice of it, they have no care or concern about it; or, as the Targum,"they are not terrified nor troubled because of the day of their death;''they put it away far from them, and think nothing about it: but their strength is firm; they are hale and robust, healthful and sound, to the day of their death; their strength is not weakened in the way by diseases and distempers.

Some take the word rendered "strength" to signify a porch or palace, and translate it, they are strong as a palace, or in a palace, or their palace is strong their houses are well built, and continue long.

Mtwml "usque ad mortem eorum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis. Mlwa "palatium vel sicut palatium"; so some in Piscator; "porticus", Schmidt; so R.

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