sufficiency
noun
In Jewish tradition
In Job, it means wealth or fullness that makes a person proud or leads him astray.
Interpretation. Elihu warns that having plenty can make a person forget God. The tradition reads this as a lesson to be humble.
Meaning
Having enough, or a great abundance. tree →
Examples
- For beware of wrath, lest thou be led away by thy sufficiency; neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside. (Writings JOB.36.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; the hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him. (Writings JOB.20.22, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «sufficiency» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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