Verse 17
17. Govern The prime meaning of the Hebrew is “restrain.” Eichhorn, Hitzig, etc., propose to read א as a noun, thus, “restrain wrath; ” but the reading of the A.V., even, with which agree Ewald, Dillmann, etc., accords better with the argument of Elihu, notwithstanding the opinion of Umbreit, that the rendering wrath is favoured by the parallelism. Right is equivalent to law, order; wrong means lawlessness, confusion, anarchy. The idea is absurd, so Elihu argues, that a wrongdoer or a hater of the right would govern “restrain” (a world.) But God does govern the world, as Elihu proceeds to show; thus establishing his proposition that injustice does not belong to God.
Most just Literally, the just, the mighty.
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