Job 22:8
8 Although you were a powerful man, ▼ owning land, ▼▼ Heb “and a man of arm, to whom [was] land.” The line is in contrast to the preceding one, and so the vav here introduces a concessive clause.
an honored man ▼
▼ The expression is unusual: “the one lifted up of face.” This is the “honored one,” the one to whom the dignity will be given.
living on it, ▼▼ Many commentators simply delete the verse or move it elsewhere. Most take it as a general reference to Job, perhaps in apposition to the preceding verse.
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