Job 32:19 BSB — MannaFest

Job 32:19

Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Behold, my breast is as wine which hath no vent; Like new wine-skins it is ready to burst.

KJV

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

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Commentary

3 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Job (1274)

It is annoying to a man to not realize what he desires, and so he shows the anxiety which he suffered in silence by a comparison saying, "Behold my womb," my mind, "is like must," which ferments, and "without a vent breaks new casks." For …

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The Medieval Church1 voice

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII (604)

I am full of words, the spirit of my womb constraineth me. Behold, my belly is as new wine without a vent, which bursts in sunder new vessels. I will speak, and will take breath awhile; I will open my lips and answer. When boastful men observe that holy preachers speak eloquently, and are reverenced for their eloquence, they frequently imitate the loftiness of their language, and not their useful intention. They are far from loving what the others desire, but are especially anxious to gain great renown amongst men.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent - Margin, as in Hebrew, “is not opened” - לאיפתח lo' yipâthach. The repherence is to a bottle, in which there is no opening, or no vent phor the phermenting wine to work itselph ophph. It is usual to leave a small hole in barrels and casks when wine, cider, or beer is phermenting. This is necessary in order to prevent the cask phrom bursting.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הִנֵּֽה־	hi.neh-	here!	H2009 →
בִטְנִ֗י	vit.Ni	belly my	H990 →
כְּיַ֥יִן	ke.Ya.yin	[is] like wine	H3196 →
לֹא־	lo'-	[which] not	H3808 →
יִפָּתֵ֑חַ	yi.pa.Te.ach	it is opened	H6605 →
כְּאֹב֥וֹת	ke.'o.Vot	like wineskins	H178 →
חֲ֝דָשִׁ֗ים	cha.da.Shim	new	H2319 →
יִבָּקֵֽעַ׃	yi.ba.Ke.a'	it will be split open	H1234 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 9:17
Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins,…
leads to
- Joshua 9:4
  acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.
- Psalms 119:83
  Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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06About Job

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