Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and glorious ones shall go down into it.
Ibn Ezra
נפשה Her breath. נפש is the breath that comes out of the mouth; comp. נפשו his breath (Job 41:21). ופערה And opened; comp. פערו they opened (Job 29:23). לבלי חק Unusually. ועלז בה And all that rejoice in it. or, and rejoicing will be—to others—at his fall. According to R. Jonah, the phrase ועלז בה And rejoicing, or laughing will be in it, describes that kind of laughter which may sometimes be noticed in people at the moment of death.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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