Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

"Ma'as" is usually "despise", in the sense of thinking something to be 
insignificant, and NOT as "abhore". I think that he's saying "I shall be 
insignificant [in my own eyes] like dust and ashes". Nothing to do with 
"repenting in dust and ashes".

Yigal
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Robert Vining 
  To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org 
  Cc: biblical-studies AT yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 11:18 PM
  Subject: [biblical-studies] Job 42:6


  Re: Job 42:6

  What is the best rendering of "ma'ac" in this verse?

  If, "despised",  who or what is the object?

  Robert Vining, Owen Sound, Ontario


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