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Gill's Exposition
What time they wax warm they vanish,.... The ice and the snow, which, when the weather becomes warm, they melt away and disappear; and in like manner, he suggests his friends ceased to be friends to…
Barnes' Notes
Which are blackish - Or, rather, which are turbid. The word used here (קדרים qoderı̂ym) means to be turbid, foul, or muddy, spoken of a torrent, and then to be of a dusky color, to be dark-colored, as…
Eliphaz had been very severe in his censures of Job; and his companions, though as yet they had said little, yet had intimated their concurrence with him. Their unkindness therein poor Job here…
Cambridge Bible
are blackish Rather, are black, that is, turbid.
is hid lit. hides itself, that is, dissolves.
Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow-falls in…