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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

Budde claimed that this unbalanced stress system held true for every line in chapters 1, 2, and 4, and for a great part of chapter 5. Since Budde’s work, others have found Budde’s unbalanced lines to be balanced with the same number of stresses in both half-lines. They conclude that, while the Qinah meter line is a dominant pattern, the first four chapters have a great mixture of other metric patterns, and that correcting the text on the basis of exceptional meter is not a useful undertaking. In
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