You cause us to turn back from the adversary Īnd those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.Ī scoffing and a derision to those around us.īecause of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,īecause of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.Īll this has come upon us, but we have not forgotten You,Īnd we have not dealt falsely with Your covenant.Īnd our steps have not deviated from Your way, Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor, Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgments on her. They uncovered her nakedness they took her sons and her daughters, but they slew her with the sword. Therefore, I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. She did not forsake her harlotries from the time in Egypt for in her youth men had lain with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her. She bestowed her harlotries on them, all of whom were the choicest men of Assyria and with all whom she lusted after, with all their idols she defiled herself. “Oholah played the harlot while she was Mine and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors, who were clothed in purple, governors and officials, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah. And they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. They played the harlot in their youth there their breasts were pressed and there their virgin bosom was handled. The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother and they played the harlot in Egypt. The delight of the people, who, when he appeared in the public streets, came out and went before him, singing, and dancing, and beating on tabrets, and such like musical instruments, to express their joy upon the sight of him but now it was otherwise with him, and he whom they could not sufficiently extol and commend, now knew not well what to say bad enough of him such a change in the sentiments and conduct of men must needs be very chagrining: or "aforetime I was as a lord", as Ben Gersom, from the use of the word in ( Daniel 3:2 ) as he supposes he was like a lord or nobleman, or as one in some high office, and now as the offscouring of all things or it denotes what he was "before them", the people, in their sight at present, and should be: the word used is "Tophet", which Aben Ezra takes to be the name of a place, and as it seems of that place where children were offered to Moloch, and which place was in being, and such practices used by the Canaanites in the times of Job and this place, which was also called the valley of Hinnom, being afterwards used for hell, led the Targum to paraphrase the words thus, "and hell from within shall I be" and so Sephorno, in appearance hell to all that see me and in general it may signify that he was, or should be, avoided, as any unclean place, very ungrateful and disagreeable, as that place was or as anything abominable, and to be loathed and rejected, and this way go several interpreters F19 though some think respect is had to the punishment of tympanization, in which sufferers were beaten upon in several parts of their bodies, as if men were beating upon a tabret or drum, which gave great pain and torment, see ( Hebrews 11:35 Hebrews 11:37 ) and with such like cruelty and indignity Job suggests he was or should be used and therefore begs for a surety, for one to interpose and plead on his behalf let the carriage of men to him be what it will, that is here referred to compare with this ( Psalms 69:11 ). The name of Job is to this day a byword or proverb among men, both for his poverty and his patience if a man is described as very poor, he is said to be as poor as Job or if very patient under his afflictions, he is said to be as patient as Job but as neither of these are to the disgrace of Job, something else seems rather intended here, even something to his reproach as when a man was represented as a very wicked man, or an hypocrite, it used to be said, such an one is as wicked a creature, and as arrant an hypocrite, as Job: He hath made me also a byword of the peopleĮither Eliphaz, or God for whatsoever befell him, whether more immediately by the hand of God, or by any instrument, the ascribes it to him, as being suffered in Providence to befall him as when he became a byword or proverb to the people in common, to whom an example might be set by one or more of Job's friends.
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