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 Thus after a determinate substantive,  ;, ; in Jb 33 a also, the omission of the article with  is only a poetic licence. After an indeterminate substantive,, last clause but one;.

In this case also the retrospective word is not infrequently suppressed, giving rise to extremely short, bold expressions, such as look unto the rock  (whence) ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit  (whence) ye were digged;  the devices (where-with) ye act violently against me.—A retrospective adverb is suppressed in  where is the way (to the place where) the light dwelleth? cf. 38:24.

Rem. 1. The omission of the retrospective word occurs most frequently in relative clauses which are governed by the construct state of a preceding substantive (especially an expression of time) and hence are virtually in the genitive. In addition to the instances already given in, cf. the following: after, ; after  ; after simple   ( when I am afraid); after   ( when the burnt offering began); 20:22, 24:11, ; after  ; after  ; after   thou hast put gladness in my heart more than (their gladness) at the time (when) their corn and their wine are increased.

2. The agreement of the retrospective pronoun with a pronominal regens in the 1st or 2nd person also takes place in a simple co-ordinated relative clause in  who art thou (that) criest? Cf., however,  we are become as they over whom ( not ) thou no longer bearest rule.

3. Occasionally—chiefly in poetic or otherwise elevated style—even independent relative clauses are simply co-ordinated with a regens, whereas we should expect them always to be preceded by a demonstrative pronoun, on the analogy of the examples in. The suppressed pronoun would stand—

(a) As subject, an abomination (is he) that chooseth you (but read perhaps );, cf. .

(b) As object,, with a retrospective pronoun;  him that covereth (or read );  I delivered... the fatherless also, and him that had none to help him.

(c) In the genitive governed by a substantive (cf. ),  him whom thou wilt send, i.e. by the hand of some one else;  and, verbal-clauses after  the man, &c.; , , , ; after  , but we must certainly read here, with the Samaritan and LXX,  as in verses 5 and 8; ; verbal-clauses after  , , ,.

(d) Governed by a preposition; so verbal-clauses after ; after  (=to the place where),, but  before the same