The figure is that of a beast of prey, who has its booty already in its teeth. The verse carries on Job 29:16; even when the unjust oppressor seemed already to have triumphed and carried off his prey, it was torn from his jaws.
Verse Job 29:17. _I BRAKE THE JAWS OF THE WICKED_] A metaphor taken from hunting. A _beast of prey_ had entered into the fold, and carried off a _sheep_. "The _huntsman_ comes, assails the _wicked_ b...
AND I BRAKE THE JAWS OF THE WICKED - Margin, “jaw-teeth, or, grinders.” The Hebrew word מתלעה _m__e__thall__e__‛âh_, the same, with the letters transposed, as מתלעות, is from לתע, to “bite” - and mea...
CHAPTER 29 _ 1. His past prosperity and honors (Job 29:1)_ 2. The good works he did (Job 29:11) Job 29:1. The words spoken by Job were wholesome words, showing that his mind was moving in another ch...
JOB 29. JOB'S FORMER HAPPY DAYS. Job 29:1. Job longs that he might once again live as of old under God's favour. In Job 29:4 secret means intimacy (_cf._ Psalms 25:14)....
WICKED. Hebrew. _'avvil_. App-44. See note on Job 18:21....
b. The cause of his honored position was benevolence and righteousness (Job 29:11-17) TEXT 29:11-17 11 FOR WHEN THE EAR HEARD _ME,_ THEN IT BLESSED ME; And when the eye saw _me,_ it gave witness un...
_BECAUSE I DELIVERED THE POOR THAT CRIED, AND THE FATHERLESS, AND HIM THAT HAD NONE TO HELP HIM._ The grounds on which Job was praised (Job 29:11) - his helping the afflicted (Psalms 72:12), who cried...
JOB'S PAST GREATNESS AND HAPPINESS Job mournfully recalls the days of God's favour, and the prosperity and honour he once enjoyed. In this chapter we have the picture of a great and worthy chieftain...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 29 JOB DESCRIBES HIS LIFE B...
Job did many good things. He even helped people whom nobody else would help. And Job wanted to do good deeds every day (verse 14). Job did these things because he was a servant of God (Job 1:8). So Jo...
וָֽ֭ אֲשַׁבְּרָה מְתַלְּעֹ֣ות עַוָּ֑ל וּ֝ מִ...
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1; Job 30:1; Job 31:1 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job looks back to the y...
THE BITTER MEMORY OF THE HAPPY PAST Job 29:1 How many thousands, looking back on the beautiful dawn of life which has become overcast, have uttered the thought of the opening words of this chapter! T...
Job now moved a step forward in his reply. He was still without a solution. That of his friends he utterly repudiated. In order to prepare the way for the utterance of a solemn oath of innocence, he f...
_Prey, which he had extorted from the poor. (Menochius)_...
(6) When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; (7) В¶ When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! (8) The young men saw me,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
AND I BRAKE THE JAWS OF THE WICKED,.... Their jaw teeth, or grinders, alluding to beasts of prey, who have such teeth, very large; the meaning may be, that Job confuted the arguments which wicked men...
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. Ver. 17. _And I brake the laws of the wicked_] It is a mercy to have judges, saith one, _modo audeant quae sentiunt,_ as th...
_I brake the jaws of the wicked_ Hebrew, מתלעות, _methallegnoth, dentes molares vel maxillas cum dentibus, the grinders_, or _the jawbones with the teeth_, the sharpest and strongest teeth in the jaw;...
JOB SPEAKS OF HIS BENEVOLENCE AND THE HONOR ACCORDED HIM...
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, of all the hard-hearted, who oppressed the poor, especially of unrighteous judges, AND PLUCKED THE SPOIL OUT OF HIS TEETH, rescuing them from the power of the wicke...
JOB'S PAST GREATNESS In this chapter Job dwells upon the honour and dignity that had been his in the past. While he was sincere in what he said, and no doubt spoke truthfully, yet there is far too muc...
THE JAWS: _ Heb._ the jawteeth or the grinders PLUCKED: _ Heb._ I cast...
He was able to stop the wicked as they sought to take advantage of the less fortunate. "Job rescued the poor from their ruthless oppressors, but he also destroyed the power of the aggressor" _(Strauss...
7-17 All sorts of people paid respect to Job, not only for the dignity of his rank, but for his personal merit, his prudence, integrity, and good management. Happy the men who are blessed with such g...
THE JAWS; or, _the jaw-bones_; or, _the grinders_, the sharpest and strongest teeth in the jaw, i.e. their power and violence wherewith they used to oppress others. It is a metaphor from wild beasts,...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He rehearses the story of his life. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: A gracious soul delights in God's smiles, not the smiles of the world, although virtu...
Job 29:3. When _his candle shined upon my head;_ that is, when the light of his countenance shone upon me, in every form of patriarchal prosperity. This figure seems to be borrowed from the lights in...
_I put on righteousness._ AD MAGISTRATUM When others do us open wrong, it is not vanity, but charity, to do ourselves open right. And whatsoever appearance of folly or vain boasting there is in so do...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 29:1 Chapters Job 29:1 conclude the dialogues with Job’s reflections on his current and future state....
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 29:7 Job looks back on what he had thought the course of his life would be. He had seen it as a well-rooted tree that would continue to bear fruit, benefiting himself and others (vv. J...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 29:17 Job describes his actions on behalf of the needy as breaking THE FANGS OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS. He uncovered the traps of the wicked for their PREY, the poor....
_JOB’S RETROSPECT_ Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends, and shows that his complaints were sufficiently well-g...
EXPOSITION JOB 29:1 From these deep musings upon the nature of true wisdom, and the contrast between the ingenuity and cleverness of man and the infinite knowledge of God, Job turns to another contra...
Moreover Job continued (Job 29:1) He's got a lot to say. Bildad has run out, so Job thought, "I'll just keep going on." And now it's sort of a lament of the days before all of his afflictions. Lookin...
1 Samuel 17:35; Proverbs 30:14; Psalms 124:3; Psalms 124:6; Psalms 3:7