job 23:8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

job 23:8 "Behold, I go forward but He is not [there], And backward, but I cannot perceive Him;

8. But I wish in vain. For "behold," &c.
forward . . . backward--rather, "to the east--to the west." The Hebrew geographers faced the east, that is, sunrise: not the north, as we do. So "before" means east: "behind," west (so the Hindus). Para, "before"--east: Apara, "behind"--west: Daschina, "the right hand"--south: Bama, "left"--north. A similar reference to sunrise appears in the name Asia, "sunrise," Europe, "sunset"; pure Babylonian names, as RAWLINSON shows.

job 23:8 "Behold, I go forward but He is not [there], And backward, but I cannot perceive Him;

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