Job 27:21
21. (Job 21:18; 15:2; Ps 58:9).
Psalms 48:7
7. ships of Tarshish—as engaged in a distant and lucrative trade, the most valuable. The phrase may illustrate God's control over all material agencies, whether their literal destruction be meant or not.
Isaiah 27:8
8. In measure—not beyond measure; in moderation (Job 23:6; Ps 6:1; Jer 10:24; 30:11; 46:28).
when it shooteth—image from the vine; rather, passing from the image to the thing itself, "when sending her away (namely, Israel to exile; Isa 50:1, God only putting the adulteress away when He might justly have put her to death), Thou didst punish her" [GESENIUS]. stayeth—rather, as Margin, "when He removeth it by His rough wind in the day," &c. east wind—especially violent in the East (Job 27:21; Jer 18:17).
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