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Gill's Exposition
They die in youth,.... They, or "their soul" (u); which, though that dies not, being immaterial and immortal; yet being the principal part of man, is put for the whole person, and which being taken…
Barnes' Notes
They die in youth - Margin, “Their soul dieth.” The word “soul” or “life” in the Hebrew is used to denote oneself. The meaning is, that they would soon be cut down, and share the lot of the openly…
Adam Clarke
They die in youth - Exactly what the psalmist says, "Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days," Psa 55:23. Literally, the words of Elihu are, "They shall die in the youth of their…
Elihu, being to speak on God's behalf, and particularly to ascribe righteousness to his Maker, here shows that the disposals of divine Providence are all, not only according to the eternal counsels of…
Cambridge Bible
They die lit. their soul dieth.They perish in the midst of their days.
is among the unclean Or, perisheth among the unclean, i. e. likethe unclean. They die prematurely or in debasement like the…
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