He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
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Gill's Exposition
He shall deliver thee in six troubles,.... Behaving as before directed; seeking unto God, committing his cause and case to him, and leaving it with him; and not despising the chastening of the Lord,…
Barnes' Notes
He shall deliver thee in six troubles - Six is used here to denote an indefinite number, meaning that he would support in many troubles. This mode of speech is not uncommon among the Hebrews, where…
Eliphaz, in this concluding paragraph of his discourse, gives Job (what he himself knew not how to take) a comfortable prospect of the issue of his afflictions, if he did but recover his temper and…
Cambridge Bible
"Six" and "seven" are round numbers meaning "many" or "all," like "three" and "four" and other numbers, elsewhere, cf. Pro 6:16; see Amo 1:3 seq., Mic 5:5. Eliphaz assumes that God's afflictions will…
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