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Document Details : Title: On the Meaning of Job 4,18 Author(s): PINKER, Aron Journal: Biblica Volume: 93 Issue: 4 Date: 2012 Pages: 500-519 DOI: 10.2143/BIB.93.4.3188773 Abstract : This paper argues that the terms עבדיו and מלאכיו in Job 4,18 should be understood as referring to the set motions of the sun, moon, and stars as well as to sporadic meteorological events, respectively. Such understanding does not dilute the validity and force of the qal wahomer in 4,18-19. The comparison is between the inanimate but permanent (sun, moon, stars, meteorological phenomena) and the animate but impermanent (humans). The difficult תהלה is assumed to have been originally תלהה from להה, 'languish, faint'. Taking תהלה as having the meaning 'weakness' provides a sense that eminently fits a natural event. |
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