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Job 9:6

The Pulpit Commentary on Job 9:6

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Which shaketh the earth out of her place. This is a still more startling figure of speech; but comp. ; ; , . And the pillars thereof tremble. The earth is conceived of, poetically, as a huge edifice, supported on pillars (comp.

), which in an earthquake are shaken, and impart their motion to the entire building. Rosenmuller's quotation of Seneca, 'Nat. Quaest.,' 6:20—"Fortasse ex aliqua parle terra veluti columnis quibusdam et pills sustinetur, quibus vitiatis et recedentibus tremit pondus impositum"—is apposite.

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