Job 24:19 — King James Version← Study notes
“Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.”
Job 24:19 — Hebrew Interlinear
Hebrew · Job 24:198 words
ℹWords are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.
Church Fathers on Job 24:19
Let him pass to excessive heat from the snow waters. Iniquity is on this account likened to cold, because the mind that sins it binds up with insensibility. Hence it is written; As a fountain has made her waters cold, so she has made her wickedness cold. Contrariwise charity is ‘heat,’ in this respect that it fires the soul it fills. Of which ‘heat’ is written, Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. And there are some who while they shun the cold or…
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