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Job 5:20

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5:20 In time of famine 1  he will redeem you from death,

and in time of war from the power of the sword. 2 

Job 33:14

Context
Elihu Disagrees With Job’s View of God

33:14 “For God speaks, the first time in one way,

the second time in another,

though a person does not perceive 3  it.

1 sn Targum Job here sees an allusion to the famine of Egypt and the war with Amalek.

2 tn Heb “from the hand of the sword.” This is idiomatic for “the power of the sword.” The expression is also metonymical, meaning from the effect of the sword, which is death.

3 tn The Syriac and the Vulgate have “and he does not repeat it,” a reading of the text as it is, according to E. Dhorme (Job, 403). But his argument is based on another root with this meaning – a root which does not exist (see L. Dennefeld, RB 48 [1939]: 175). The verse is saying that God does speak to man.



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