Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Job 8:5 - 8:5

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Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Job 8:5 - 8:5


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5 If thou seekest unto God,

And makest supplication to the Almighty,

6 If thou art pure and upright; Surely!

He will care for thee,

And restore the habitation of thy righteousness;

7 And if thy beginning was small,

Thy end shall be exceeding great.

There is still hope for Job (אַתָּה, in opposition to his children), if, turning humbly to God, he shows that, although not suffering undeservedly, he is nevertheless pure and upright in his inmost mind. Job 8:6 is so intended; not as Mercier and others explain: si in posterum puritati et justitiae studueris. אֶל־אֵל שִׁחַר, to turn one's self to God earnestly seeking, constr. praegnans, like אֶל־אֵל דָּרַשׁ, Job 5:8. Then begins the conclusion with כִּי־עַתָּה, like Job 13:18. “The habitation of thy righteousness” is Job's household cleansed and justified from sin. God will restore that; שִׁלַּם might also signify, give peace to, but restore is far more appropriate. Completely falling back on שָׁלֵם, the Piel signifies to recompense, off like being returned for like, and to restore, of a complete covering of the loss sustained. God will not only restore, but increase beyond measure, what Job was and had. The verb. masc. after אַחֲרִית here is remarkable. But we need not, with Olsh., read יַשְׂגֶּה: we may suppose, with Ewald, according to 174, e, that אהרית is purposely treated as masc. It would be a mistake to refer to Pro 23:32; Pro 29:21, in support of it.