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Gill's Exposition
As the waters fail from the sea,.... the words may be rendered either without the as, and denote dissimilitude, and the sense be, that the waters go from the sea and return again, as with the tide:…
Barnes' Notes
As the waters fail from the sea - As the waters evaporate wholly, and leave the bottom wholly dry, so it is with man, who passes entirely away, and leaves nothing. But to what fact Job refers here, is…
We have seen what Job has to say concerning life; let us now see what he has to say concerning death, which his thoughts were very much conversant with, now that he was sick and sore. It is not…
Cambridge Bible
fail from the sea i. e. the inland sea or pool, cf. Isa 19:5; so in Arabic bahr, sea, is any mass of water whether salt or fresh, and also a river.
the flood the stream. A graphic figure for complete…