A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Job (Biblia.com)

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For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

peaceful, familiar picture of Job’s cattle ploughing, then suddenly (15) this picture is completely wiped out—for ever. The next two messages at once suggest a new calamity with their opening words: “the fire of heaven fell”; “the Chaldæans made three bands”: the last, like the first, begins with an old familiar scene—the children banqueting; but this, after the recital of so much calamity, only heralds the last and crowning stroke, and by recalling the happier days, for ever ended, only adds to

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