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Job 11:20

Context

11:20 But the eyes of the wicked fail, 1 

and escape 2  eludes them;

their one hope 3  is to breathe their last.” 4 

Job 31:16

Context

31:16 If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, 5 

or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

1 tn The verb כָּלָה (kalah) means “to fail, cease, fade away.” The fading of the eyes, i.e., loss of sight, loss of life’s vitality, indicates imminent death.

2 tn Heb a “place of escape” (with this noun pattern). There is no place to escape to because they all perish.

3 tn The word is to be interpreted as a metonymy; it represents what is hoped for.

4 tn Heb “the breathing out of the soul”; cf. KJV, ASV “the giving up of the ghost.” The line is simply saying that the brightest hope that the wicked have is death.

5 tn Heb “kept the poor from [their] desire.”



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