[869] Pence.

[870] May.

[871] Complain.

[872] Substance or property.

[873] See above, pp. [365] ff.

[874] See above, Chap. [VII].

[875] אחרית is the hindmost, furthest, ultimate, whether of space (Psalm cxxxix. 9: "the uttermost part of the sea"), or of time (Deut. xi. 12: "the end of the year"). It is the end as compared with the beginning, the sequel with the start, the future with the present (Job xlii. 12). In Proverbs it is chiefly used in the moral sense of issue or result. But it chiefly occurs in the phrase used here, אחרית הימים, not "the latter days," as A.V., nor ultimate days, for in these phrases lurks the idea of time having an end, but the after-days (Cheyne), or, better still, the issue of the days.

[876] LXX.

[877] Or arbitrate.

[878] Literally: "up to far away."