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 fence does not hold them back. צנּים, as Pro 22:5 : the double praepos. אל־מן is also found elsewhere, but with another meaning. עמּים has only the appearance of being plur.: it is sing. after the form צדּיק, from the verb צמם, nectere, and signifies, Job 18:9, a snare; here, however, not judicii laqueus (Böttch.), but what, besides the form, comes still nearer - the snaremaker, intriguer. The Targ. translates לסטיסין, i.e., λησταί. Most modern critics (Rosenm. to Ebr.) translate: the thirsty (needy), as do all the old translations, except the Targ.; this, however, is not possible without changing the form. The meaning is, that intriguing persons catch up (שׁאף, as Amo 2:7) their wealth. Eliphaz now tells why it thus befell this fool in his own person and his children.

Verses 6-11
Job 5:6-11  6  For evil cometh not forth from the dust, And sorrow sprouteth not from the earth;  7  For man is born to sorrow, As the sparks fly upward. 8 On the contrary, I would earnestly approach unto God, And commit my cause to the Godhead;  9  To Him who doeth great things and unsearchable; Marvellous things till there is no number: 10 Who giveth rain over the earth, And causeth water to flow over the fields: 11 To set the low in high places; And those that mourn are exalted to prosperity. As the oracle above, so Eliphaz says here, that a sorrowful life is allotted to man, so that his wisdom consequently consists