Teks -- Job 21:24 (NET)

21:24 his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist.

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JFB: Job 21:24 - breasts

Rather, "skins," or "vessels" for fluids [LEE]. But [UMBREIT] "stations or resting-places of his herds near water"; in opposition to Zophar (Job 20:17); the first clause refers to his abundant substance, the second to his vigorous health.

JFB: Job 21:24 - moistened

Comparing man's body to a well-watered field (Pro 3:8; Isa 58:11).

Clarke: Job 21:24 - His breasts are full of milk

His breasts are full of milk - The word עטיניו atinaiv , which occurs nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible, is most likely an Arabic term, but probably so provincial as to be now lost. (Arabic) atana signifies to macerate hides so as to take off the hair: hence Mr. Good thinks it means here, that sleekness of skin which is the effect of fatness both in man and beast. But as the radical idea signifies to stink, as leather does which is thus macerated, I cannot see how this meaning can apply here. Under the root עטן atan , Mr. Parkhurst gives the following definitions:" עטן occurs, not as a verb, but as a noun masculine plural, in construction, עטיני atiney , the bowels, intestines; once Job 21:24, עטיניו atinaiv , his bowels or intestines, are full of, or abound with, חלב chalab , fat. So the lxx.: Τα δε εγκατα αυτου πληρη στεατος . The Vulgate: Viscera, ejus plena sent adipe , ‘ his intestines are full of fat.’ May not עטינים atinim be a noun masculine plural from עטה atah , to involve, formed as גליונים gailyonim , mirrors, from גלה galah , to reveal? And may nor the intestines, including those fatty parts, the mesentery and omentum, be so called on account of their wonderful involutions?"I think this conjecture to be as likely as any that has yet been formed.

TSK: Job 21:24 - His breasts // moistened

His breasts : or, His milk pails, Job 15:27; Psa 17:10

moistened : Pro 3:8

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Poole: Job 21:24 - His breasts // His bones are moistened with marrow

His breasts: the Hebrew word is not elsewhere used, and therefore it is diversely translated; either,

1. Breasts . But that seems very improper here, because men’ s breasts do not use to be filled with milk. Or,

2. Milk-pails . But their fulness is common, and no sign of eminent plenty, which is here designed. Besides, the following branch, which in Job and elsewhere frequently explains the former, implies that it signifies some part of man’ s body, as all the ancient interpreters render it; either the sides , as some of them have it; or the bowels , as others. But for the following milk they read fat ; the Hebrew letters being exactly the same in both words; and the Hebrews by the name of milk do oft understand fat.

His bones are moistened with marrow which is opposed to the dryness of the bones, Job 30:30 Psa 102:3 , which is caused by old age, or grievous distempers or calamities.

Haydock: Job 21:24 - Bowels

Bowels. Protestants, "breasts" (Marginal note, "milk-pails") are full of milk. But the Septuagint, Bochart, &c., agree with the Vulgate. Job describes a corpulent man (Calmet) living in luxury, like the glutton. (Haydock)

Gill: Job 21:24 - His breasts are full of milk // and his bones are moistened with marrow

His breasts are full of milk,.... As this is not literally true of men, some versions read the words otherwise; his bowels or intestines are full of fat, as the Vulgate Latin and Septuagint; and others, his sides or ribs are full of fat, as the Syriac and Arabic; the words for "side" and "fat" being near in sound to those here used; and so it describes a man fit and plump, and fleshy, when death lays hold upon him, and not wasted with consumptions and pining sickness, as in the case of some, Job 33:21; the word for breasts is observed by some ^h to signify, in the Arabic language, "vessels", in which liquors are contained, and in the Misnic language such as they put oil in, out of which oil is squeezed; and so are thought here to intend such vessels as are milked into; and therefore render it by milk pails; so Mr. Broughton, "his pails are full of milk" ⁱ; which may denote the abundance of good things enjoyed by such persons, as rivers of honey and butter; contrary to Zophar's notion, Job 20:17; and a large increase of oil and wine, and all temporal worldly good; amidst the plenty of which such die:

and his bones are moistened with marrow; not dried up through a broken spirit, or with grief and trouble, and through the decays of old age; but, being full of marrow, are moist, and firm and strong; and so it intimates, that such, at the time when death seizes them, are of an hale, healthful, robust, and strong constitution; see Psa 73:4.