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Gill's Exposition
His breasts are full of milk,.... As this is not literally true of men, some versions read the words otherwise; his bowels or intestines are full of fat, as the Vulgate Latin and Septuagint; and…
Barnes' Notes
One dieth in his full strength - Margin, “very perfection,” or, “in the strength of his perfection.” The meaning is, that he dies in the very prime and vigor of life, surrounded with everything that…
Job had largely described the prosperity of wicked people; now, in these verses,
I. He opposes this to what his friends had maintained concerning their certain ruin in this life. "Tell me how often do…
Cambridge Bible
in his full strength lit. in his very perfection, or completeness, meaning, in the full enjoyment of all that made his lot complete, wanting nothing as the second clause explains.