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  • From: Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Job 1:8; 2:3
  • Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 20:13:12 -0600

On Friday 05 August 2005 20:05, Charles Rempel wrote:
> > Actually, when God asks Satan "have you considered my servant
> > Job? Look how
> > great he is. Makes your blood boil, doesn't it?????" (my paraphrase,
> > obviously) it almost appears that God is taunting Satan, daring
> > him to make
> > an accusation. In both chapters, it is God, not Satan, who brings up the
> > subject of Job. What do you do with that?
> >
> > --
> > Dave Washburn
>
> Actually the Hebrew says, "Have you set your heart on my servant Job?" A
> little different perspective then is implied by the English translation.

I know. But the various lexica etc. say that "set your heart on", %YM LB, is
the equivalent of "consider, look at."

--
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"Well, if I'd wanted a safe life, I guess I wouldn't have
married a man who studies rocks." - Betty Armstrong (Fay Masterson)




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