The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
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Gill's Exposition
Terrors take hold on him as waters,.... The terrors of death, and of an awful judgment that is to come after it; finding himself dying, death is the king of terrors to him, dreading not only the awful…
Barnes' Notes
The rich man - That is, the rich man who is wicked. Shall lie down - Shalt die - for so the connection demands. But he shall not be gathered - In an honorable burial. The slain in battle are gathered…
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…
Cambridge Bible
the rich man shall lie down "Rich" is equivalent to "wicked," Isa 53:9. The words might be rendered, he lieth down rich.
shall not be gathered The parallel in the next clause, he is not, suggests the…
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