Job 11:20
20 But the eyes of the wicked fail, ▼▼ The verb כָּלָה (kalah) means “to fail, cease, fade away.” The fading of the eyes, i.e., loss of sight, loss of life’s vitality, indicates imminent death.
and escape ▼
▼ Heb a “place of escape” (with this noun pattern). There is no place to escape to because they all perish.
eludes them; their one hope ▼
▼ The word is to be interpreted as a metonymy; it represents what is hoped for.
is to breathe their last.” ▼▼ Heb “the breathing out of the soul”; cf. KJV, ASV “the giving up of the ghost.” The line is simply saying that the brightest hope that the wicked have is death.
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