Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
Our bones lie scattered at the mouth of the grave as wood is cut and split upon the ground. The scattering is at the entrance of the grave, like wood chopped and split on the earth. It expresses the extremity of death and destruction.
The word rendered grave is the Hebrew sheol, the place of the dead, used here in the sense of grave, pit, or state of the dead. It is therefore among the Old Testament examples showing that sheol can be rendered grave. Those who held the other reckoning teach that the word rendered grave is instead the Hebrew kever, meaning a grave or burial place.
Sheol, the realm and abode or state of the dead, lies beneath the earth, in its interior. It is below, and it encompasses the place of every grave. The image of bones scattered at the grave's mouth describes sheol as that place of the dead beneath the earth.
Our bones lie scattered at the mouth of the grave as wood is cut and split upon the ground. The scattering is at the entrance of the grave, like wood chopped and split on the earth. It expresses the extremity of death and destruction.
The word rendered grave is the Hebrew sheol, the place of the dead, used here in the sense of grave, pit, or state of the dead. It is therefore among the Old Testament examples showing that sheol can be rendered grave. Those who held the other reckoning teach that the word rendered grave is instead the Hebrew kever, meaning a grave or burial place.
Sheol, the realm and abode or state of the dead, lies beneath the earth, in its interior. It is below, and it encompasses the place of every grave. The image of bones scattered at the grave's mouth describes sheol as that place of the dead beneath the earth.