a survivor · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
buried
יִקָּבֵ֑רוּyi.ka.Ve.ru
H6912
to inter · verb, niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
death
בַּמָּ֣וֶתba.Ma.vet
H4194
death (natural or violent) · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
widows
וְ֝אַלְמְנֹתָ֗יוve.'al.me.no.Tav
H490
a widow · conjunction + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
weep
תִבְכֶּֽינָהtiv.Kei.nah
H1058
to weep · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine plural
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Cross-references
Psalms 78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
1 Kings 14:10-11 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him t…
1 Kings 16:3-4 Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son…
1 Kings 21:21-24 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him…
Jeremiah 22:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Job 27:11–end
Job's friends had seen a great deal of the misery and destruction that attend wicked people, especially oppressors; and Job, while the heat of disputation lasted, had said as much, and with as much assurance, of their prosperity; but now that the heat of the battle was nearly over he was willing to own how far he agreed with them, and where the difference between his opinion and theirs lay. 1. He agreed with them that wicked people are miserable people, that God will surely reckon with cruel oppressors, and one time or other, one way or other, his justice will make reprisals upon them for all the affronts they have put upon God and all the wrongs they have done to their neighbours. This trut…
Those that escape war and famine (Job 27:14) shall be buried by the deadly plague--"death" (Job 18:13; Jer 15:2; Rev 6:8). The plague of the Middle Ages was called "the black death." Buried by it implies that they would have none else but the death plague itself (poetically personified) to perform their funeral rites, that is, would have no one.
his--rather, "their widows." Transitions from singular to plural are frequent. Polygamy is not implied.
John Gill on Job 27:15
Those that remain of him,.... Of the wicked man after his death; or such that remain, and have escaped the sword and famine:
shall be buried in death: the pestilence, emphatically called death by the Hebrews, as by us the mortality, see Revelation 6:8. This is another of God's sore public judgments wicked men, and is such a kind of death, by reason of the contagion of it, that a person is buried as soon as dead almost, being infectious to keep him; and so Mr. Broughton translates the words,
"his remnant shall be buried as soon as they are dead;''
or the disease of which such die being so very infectious sometimes, no one dares to bury them for fear of catching it, and so they lie unburied…
"And all who are around him will have death to share. His most faithful imitators in the path of seduction. "No one will have pity on their widows. These are the seduced populations like themselves, and left without help, like the women who have lost their husbands; for they had cemented between them, in these promises of error, a fidelity similar to that of the spouses.
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death. And his widows shall not weep. Doubtless 'the persons left' of that tribe of heretics 'are buried in death,' for whereas they return not to the light of truth, assuredly they are sunk down in everlasting punishment by an earthly perception. And because it is sometimes the case, that whilst the leader of the common herds in error is carried off to punishment, the common herds that were led astray are new set to a knowledge of the truth, and then the persons under them return to true knowledge, when these persons are brought to eternal punishments, who had been wrongly set over them, it is fitly added; And his widows shall not weep. Whom do we take for 'his widows' but the subject common herds left deserted for their happiness by his death? For oftentimes, as has been said, when the preacher of error is carried off to everlasting punishments, his subject multitudes are brought back to the grace of a true acquaintance. For these multitudes the wicked preacher was set over like a husband, because the seducer of the soul did cleave joined to them for the worse. Or, indeed, 'the widows do not weep,' because whilst continuing in their erring belief, whereas they hold their preacher to have been holy, they are beguiled by a deceitful hope, that they should not mourn.
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Dictionary and topics
Hypocrisy · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Rich, The · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Widows · Not to be deplored by, considered a great calamity — Not to be deplored by, considered a great calamity
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
on Job 27:13-18
13 This is the lot of the wicked man with God,
And the heritage of the violent which they receive from the Almighty:
14 If his children multiply, it is for the sword,
And his offspring have not bread enough.
15 His survivors shall be buried by the pestilence,
And his widows shall not weep.
16 If he heapeth silver together as dust,
And prepareth garments for himself as mire:
17 He prepareth it, and the righteous clothe themselves,
And the innocent divide the silver among themselves.
18 He hath built as a moth his house,
And as a hut that a watchman setteth up.
We have already had the combination אדם רשׁע for אישׁ רשׁע in Job 20:29; it is a favourite expression in Proverbs, and reminds one of…
Some interpreters see a new speech here and ascribe it to Zophar because otherwise Zophar has no speech in this cycle.
Rashi on Job 27:14
If his sons increase they will increase for the sword. in death They will die amidst suffering and sicknesses, until his widows will be happy at their death and will not weep.
