unsightliness
noun
In Jewish tradition
In Job, Elihu describes a sick person whose body wastes away until his bones look ugly.
Interpretation. It is read as a picture of how suffering and illness can break a person, and how a person then needs God's mercy.
Meaning
Ugliness; a look that is unpleasant to see. tree →
Examples
- His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones corrode to unsightliness. (Writings JOB.33.21, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
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