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Gill's Exposition
They spend their days in wealth,.... Or "in good" (p); not in the performance of good works, or in the exercise of that which is spiritually good; or in seeking after spiritual good things, or eternal…
Barnes' Notes
They take the timbrel - They have instruments of cheerful music in their dwellings; and this is an evidence that they are not treated as the friends of Job had maintained. Instead of being, as they…
All Job's three friends, in their last discourses, had been very copious in describing the miserable condition of a wicked man in this world. "It is true," says Job, "remarkable judgments are…
Cambridge Bible
And they themselves pass their days in gladness, surrounded with all the charms of life.
They take the timbrel Rather, they sing to, i. e. to the accompaniment of, the timbrel and the lute; lit. they…
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