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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 31:40 - 31:40
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thistles - or brambles, thorns.
cockle - literally, “noxious weeds.”
The words ... ended - that is, in the controversy with the friends. He spoke in the book afterwards, but not to them. At Job 31:37 would be the regular conclusion in strict art. But Job 31:38-40 are naturally added by one whose mind in agitation recurs to its sense of innocence, even after it has come to the usual stopping point; this takes away the appearance of rhetorical artifice. Hence the transposition by Eichorn of Job 31:38-40 to follow Job 31:25 is quite unwarranted.