Comentários de Citação sobre Jó 7:5

By virtue of the truths inscribed by God onto his mind, truths that are unattainable by empirical investigation or great age, being an inherent faculty of man (Job 32:8), Elihu considers himself to be God’s attorney;¹⁰The literal translation of the Hebrew name Elihu - אליהוא - is 'he is my God'. The name occurs elsewhere referring to other persons: 1Samuel 1:1; 1Chron.12:7. for his wisdom is a subset of God’s wisdom and his soul is a part of the Supreme Being on high (Job 31:2). And so he informs Job that he will stand in for God and debate on His behalf and that since the divineness in his soul is clothed in flesh (Job 7:5), just as he [Job] is, its awe and dread should not frighten him and he [Elihu] will be able to present all his arguments without instilling fear or apprehension.

נגששה We grope. It is hap. leg. Some connect it with גוש a clod (Job 7:5).⁸Or rather the reverse, connect גוש with גשש. The fundamental meaning seems to be to touch, to feel; from this is derived גוש clod, that is, some substantial thing that is felt. Comp. Ges. Lex., sub voce גוש.

the sea wrinkled Like (above 7:5), “my skin wrinkled.” Many wrinkles were formed. (So, when He said (Gen. 1:9), “Let the waters...gather,” they were gathered from their straightness and were wrinkled into many wrinkles) until they gathered into one place, which was prepared for them.

Who wrinkles the sea Heb. רֹגַע, an expression similar to (Job 7:5) “My skin was wrinkled (רָגַע) .” Froncir in O.F. [froncer in Modern French, to wrinkle, gather, pucker].

לִרְגָעִים as is an expression of breaking, like (Isa. 51:15): “Who splits (ַרוֹגַע) the sea;” (Job 7:5), “my skin split (רָגַע);” (Ps. 35:20), “and against the crushed people of (רִגְעֵי) the earth,” [synonymous with] דִכְּאֵי “the crushed people of the earth.” Menachem, however, explained it (p. 162) in the sense of רֶגַע, a moment, as in (Ps. 30:6): “For His wrath lasts but a moment (רֶגַע).”

and against the crushed people of the earth Heb. רגעי, on the crushed people of the earth, and so (in Jer. 31:34): “Who stirs up (רגע) the sea”; (Job 7:5), “my skin wrinkled (רגע).” And so did Dunash explain it.

Who stirs up the sea He breaks the sea, moves it and “boils” it, and it becomes wrinkles. Cf. “my skin became wrinkled (רָגַע)” (Job 7:5).