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Job 7:8

Context

7:8 The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; 1 

your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone. 2 

Job 16:8

Context

16:8 You have seized me, 3 

and it 4  has become a witness;

my leanness 5  has risen up against me

and testifies against me.

1 sn The meaning of the verse is that God will relent, but it will be too late. God now sees him with a hostile eye; when he looks for him, or looks upon him in friendliness, it will be too late.

2 tn This verse is omitted in the LXX and so by several commentators. But the verb שׁוּר (shur, “turn, return”) is so characteristic of Job (10 times) that the verse seems appropriate here.

3 tn The verb is קָמַט (qamat) which is used only here and in 22:16; it means “to seize; to grasp.” By God’s seizing him, Job means his afflictions.

4 tn The subject is “my calamity.”

5 tn The verb is used in Ps 109:24 to mean “to be lean”; and so “leanness” is accepted here for the noun by most. Otherwise the word is “lie, deceit.” Accordingly, some take it here as “my slanderer” or “my liar” (gives evidence against me).



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