Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...they are full of professions, and their aid is proffered to us. But we go to them when we need their assistance, when we are like the weary and thirsty traveller, and they disappear like deceitful streams in the sands of the desert. 19. The troops of Tema looked That is, looked for the streams of water. On the situation of Tema, see Notes, ch. ii. 11. This was the country of Eliphaz, and the image would be well understood by him. The figure is one of exquisite beauty It means that the caravans from Tema, in journeying through the desert, looked for those streams. They came with an expectation of finding the means of allaying their thirst. When they came there they were disappointed, for the waters had dispeared. Reiske, however, renders this, "Their tracks (the branchings of the flood) tend towards Tema;"--a translation which the Hebrew will bear, but the usual version is more correct, and is more elegant. IT The companies of Sheba waited for them. The Sheba here referred to was probably in the southern part of Arabia. See Notes on Isa. xlv. 14. The idea is, that the caravans from that part of Arabia came and looked for a supply of water, and were disappointed.., 20. They w.re confounded because r cause they had hoped; they came thither,, and were ashamed. 21 For now ' ye are 2 nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid. 1 or, ye are like to it, or, them. 2 not. they had hoped. The caravans of Tema and Sheba. The word " confounded " here means ashamed. It represents the state of feeling which one has who has met with disappointment. He is perplexed, distressed, and ashamed that he had entertained so confident hope. See Notes on Isa. xxx. 5. They were downcast and sad that the waters had failed, and they looked on one another with co...
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