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Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 21:32

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Job21:32

32. Yet shall he be brought to the Grave , and shall remain in the Tomb .

Heb. And. The pomp of his death shall be suitable to the glory of his Life.

With Pomp and State, as the word signifies.

Heb. to the Graves, i. e. to an honourable and eminent Grave: The plural number being oft used Emphatically to note Eminency, as Iob 40. 10. Prov. 1. 20. Lam. 3. 22. He shall not die a violent but a natural Death, and shall lie in the Bed of Honour.

Heb. Shall watch, (i. e. have a constant and fixed abode, as Watchmen have in the watching-place) in the heap, i. e. in his Grave, which is called an heap, either because the Earth is there heaped up, or because it was adorned with some Pyramid, or other Monument raised up to his Honour. His Body shall quietly rest in his Grave or Monument, where he shall be embalmed and preserved so entire and uncorrupted, that he might rather seem to be a living Watch-man, set there to guard the Body, than to be a dead Corps.

Marginal references: Heb. Graves.; Heb. watch in the heaps.

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