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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...

2. Single sentence, which may be taken as binary, or as quaternary-ternary. The reward. Long life is considered in OT. to be one of the chief blessings of man’s lot (Ex. 20:12), including, as it does, the idea of happiness (so that the first line might be rendered: a long and happy life). Sheol offered nothing—the longer one lived on earth the greater one’s opportunities for work and enjoyment (Isa. 38:19; 65:20).* Peace is originally wholeness, completeness of condition. It is used of bodily health
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