Job 2:7-8, 17:14, 19:26, 24:20, 30:18-19, Psa 38:5-7, Isa 1:6, 14:11 | TSK | STEP | So went. sore boils.{Shechin râ,} supposed to be the {Judham,} or black leprosy, of the Arabs, termed Elephantiasis by the Greeks, from its rendering the skin, like that of the elephant, scabrous, dark coloured, and furrowed all over with tubercles. This loathsome and most afflictive disease is accompanied with most intolerable itching. from the sole.

Job 2:7-8

So went.

sore boils.{Shechin râ,} supposed to be the {Judham,} or black leprosy, of the Arabs, termed Elephantiasis by the Greeks, from its rendering the skin, like that of the elephant, scabrous, dark coloured, and furrowed all over with tubercles. This loathsome and most afflictive disease is accompanied with most intolerable itching.

30:17-19,30; Ex 9:9-11; De 28:27,35; Re 16:11

from the sole.

Isa 1:6; 3:17

took him.

19:14-17; Ps 38:5,7; Lu 16:20,21

he sat.

42:6; 2Sa 13:19; Isa 61:3; Eze 27:30; Jon 3:6; Mt 11:21

Job 17:14

said. Heb. cried, or, called. corruption.

21:32,33; Ps 16:10; 49:9; Ac 2:27-31; 13:34-37; 1Co 15:42,53,54

to the worm.

19:26; 24:20; Isa 14:11

Job 19:26

And though, etc.Or, After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh shall I see God.

Ps 17:15

in my flesh.

Ps 16:9,11; Mt 5:8; 1Co 13:12; 15:53; Php 3:21; 1Jo 3:2; Re 1:7

Job 24:20

the worm.

17:14; 19:26

he shall be.

Pr 10:7; Ec 8:10; Isa 26:14

wickedness.

14:7-10; 18:16,17; Da 4:14; Mt 3:10

Job 30:18-19

By the great.

2:7; 7:5; 19:20; Ps 38:5; Isa 1:5,6

cast me.

9:31; Ps 69:1,2; Jer 38:6

dust.

2:8; 42:6; Ge 18:27

Psalms 38:5-7

My wounds.The soul being invisible, its distempers are also so; therefore the sacred writers describe them by the distempers of the body. (See the Parallel Texts on these verses.) On reading these and similar passages, say Bp. Lowth, some, who were but little acquainted with the genius of Hebrew poetry, have pretended to enquire into the nature of the disease with which the poet was afflicted; not less absurdly, in my opinion, than if they had perplexed themselves to discover in what river he was plunged, when he complains that "the deep waters had gone over his soul."

7; 32:3; Isa 1:5,6; Jer 8:22

troubled. Heb. wearied. bowed.

35:14; 42:5; *marg:

57:6; 145:14

mourning.

6:6; 31:10; 42:9; 43:2; 88:9; Job 30:28; Isa 38:14

my loins.

41:8; 2Ch 21:18,19; Job 7:5; 30:18; Ac 12:23

no.