Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Barry <nebarry AT verizon.net>]

On 6/19/2013 11:05 AM, Pere Porta wrote:
> Yes, Karl.
> But we have to accept the oddity of a sentence like this:
> /....(they) will crush them before (or in front of) (the) moth./
> Does it make any sense for us?
> What is the real meaning of this sentence in Jb 4:19?
> Mike: no place for "grass" here... true?

It simply means "crush them like a moth..." LXX reads this, "crush them 
in the fashion of a moth" Vulgate reads "consumed as though by a moth..."

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