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11. sea--that is, a lake, or pool formed from the outspreading
of a river. Job lived near the Euphrates: and "sea" is applied to it
(Jer 51:36;
Isa 27:1).
So of the Nile
(Isa 19:5).
fail--utterly disappeared by drying up. The rugged channel of the
once flowing water answers to the outstretched corpse ("lieth down,"
Job 14:12)
of the once living man.
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