John Gill's Exposition on Job 8:11

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Can the rush grow up without mire? etc.] No, at least not long, or so as to lift up his head on high, as the word signifies f349; the rush or bulrush, which seems to be meant, delights in watery places, and has its name in Hebrew from its absorbing or drinking up water; it grows in moist and watery clay, or in marshy places, which Jarchi says is the sense of the word here used; the Septuagint understands it of the “paper reed”, which, as Pliny f350 observes, grows in the marshy places of Egypt, and by the still waters of the river Nile: can the flag grow without water? or “the sedge” f351; which usually grows in moist places, and on the banks of rivers; this unless in such places, or if without water, cannot grow long, or make any very large increase, or come to maturity; so some f352 render it, “if the rush should grow up without”, etc. then it would be with it as follows.

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