30. island--that is, "dwelling." But the Hebrew expresses the
negative
(1Sa 4:21);
translate "Thus He (God) shall deliver him who was not
guiltless," namely, one, who like Job himself on conversion shall be
saved, but not because he was, as Job so constantly affirms of himself,
guiltless, but because he humbles himself
(Job 22:29);
an oblique attack on Job, even to the last.
and it--Rather, "he (the one not heretofore guiltless) shall
be delivered through the purity (acquired since conversion) of thy
hands"; by thy intercession (as
Ge 18:26,
&c.). [MAURER]. The irony is strikingly exhibited
in Eliphaz unconsciously uttering words which exactly answer to what
happened at last: he and the other two were "delivered" by God
accepting the intercession of Job for them
(Job 42:7, 8).
JFB.
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