In speaking, Job knows that he is risking his life. "Taking his flesh in his teeth meant risking his life. An animal that carries the flesh of its prey in its mouth risks losing it, because other animals, seeing it, would desire to seize it. Job, then, knew that he was putting himself in. dangerous position by speaking directly to God" (Zuck pp. 60-61).
Verse Job 13:14. _WHEREFORE DO I TAKE MY FLESH IN MY TEETH_] A proverbial expression. I risk every thing on the justice of my cause. _I put_ _my life in my hand_, 1 Samuel 28:21. I run all hazards; I...
WHEREFORE DO I TAKE MY FLESH IN MY TEETH - The meaning of the proverbial expressions in this verse is not very clear. They indicate a state of great danger; but the exact sense of the proverbs it has...
CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR _ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_ 2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7) 3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1) 4. He appeals to God ...
Job turns to plead his cause with God. He will speak whatever it costs (Job 13:13). This also, he says, shall be my deliverance, that a godless man will not come before Him. Job means that his deliver...
WHEREFORE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. TAKE MY FLESH IN MY TEETH. Figure of speech _Paroemia._ App-6. Still preserved in Arabic for rushing into danger. Like the next clause, which is. pr...
Job now turns from his friends, whom he commands to be silent, to his great plea with God, resuming the intention expressed in Job 13:3. The passage has two parts, one preliminary, Job 13:13, exhibiti...
_Wherefore do I take_ Or, SHOULD I TAKE. This and the following verse are surrounded with difficulties. The meaning of the second clause of Job 13:14 is well ascertained from usage, it is: to expose o...
WHEREFORE DO I TAKE MY FLESH IN MY TEETH, &C.?— That is, "You ask me, why I should consider my case as thus desperate? (for that is the meaning of these phrases.) Why should you be thus slow to believ...
5. Job would dare to present his case before God. (Job 13:13-19) TEXT 13:13-19 13 HOLD your PEACE, LET ME ALONE, that I may speak; AND LET COME ON ME WHAT WILL. 14 Wherefore should I TAKE my flesh...
_WHEREFORE DO I TAKE MY FLESH IN MY TEETH, AND PUT MY LIFE IN MINE HAND?_ A proverb for, 'Why should I anxiously desire to save my life?' (Eichorn). The image in the first clause is that of a wild bea...
JOB'S THIRD SPEECH (CONTINUED) 1-12. Job claims to understand as much about God as the friends. He rejects their opinion as to the cause of his troubles, and regards it as an attempt to curry favour...
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 13 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...
An evil man is afraid to meet God. God will punish that man for his evil deeds. Job’s friends thought that Job was evil. They warned him not to argue with God. They told him to change his behaviour....
WHEREFORE DO I TAKE MY FLESH IN MY TEETH. — This is probably the meaning of this verse, which, however, should not be read interrogatively: “At all risks, come what come may, I will take my flesh in m...
עַל ־מָ֤ה ׀ אֶשָּׂ֣א בְשָׂרִ֣י בְ שִׁנָּ֑י ו֝
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
“THOUGH HE SLAY ME” Job 13:1 The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4. Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his sins, for which he was sufferin...
Continuing his answer, Job restated his conviction that his knowledge was not inferior to theirs, and declared that his appeal was to God (1-3). Before making this appeal there is an introductory pass...
Wherefore do I (e) take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? (e) Is not this a revealed sign of my affliction and that I do not complain without cause, seeing that I am thus tormented...
Why you seem to ask do I thus eagerly desire to die, (Haydock) as if I wear tearing my own flesh, and exposing my soul to danger, (Worthington) like a madman? (Tirinus) --- Is it not better for me to...
(1) В¶ Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. (2) What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. (3) Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I de...
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...
WHEREFORE DO I TAKE MY FLESH IN MY TEETH,.... Or bite my lips, to keep in my words, and refrain from speaking? I will not do it: AND PUT MY LIFE IN MY HAND? or, expose it to danger by a forced silenc...
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? Ver. 14. _Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth?_] _q.d._ Do ye think, O my friends, that I am in a fit of spiritual frenzy,...
_Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth_, &c. The sense, according to some commentators, is, Why do I torment myself? Why do I grieve so immoderately, like those persons who, in their afflictions, r...
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, anxious to save his body and life at any price, AND PUT MY LIFE IN MINE HAND, seeking to save his soul or life by one final desperate exertion of all his stre...
Job's Comfort and Prayer...
JOB DECLARES HIMSELF FULLY EQUAL TO HIS FRIENDS (vv.1-12) Job has spoken at length of God's wisdom and power, now he tells Zophar that his eye has seen all this, his ear has heard it and understood...
13-22 Job resolved to cleave to the testimony his own conscience gave of his uprightness. He depended upon God for justification and salvation, the two great things we hope for through Christ. Tempor...
According to this translation the sense seems to be this, If you speak truth, and God punisheth none but wicked men, why doth he bring me (whom he knows to be no hypocrite, as you slander me) to that...
Job 13:14 take H5375 (H8799) flesh H1320 teeth H8127 put H7760 (H8799) life H5315 hands H3709 I take -...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to three friends continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: We should presevere in the way of duty, though it cost us all that is dear to us in this world, re...
Job 13:4. _Forgers of lies,_ misconstruing the ways of providence. Job 13:10 , _He will surely reprove you,_ though under a specious veil you accept of persons. Job 13:12. _Your remembrances are like...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 13:3 Before he turns to address his lament directly to God (Job 13:20), Job argues that his friends have misdiagnosed him (WORTHLESS PHYSICIANS;...
_JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR—CONTINUED_ I. Job re-asserts his knowledge of the Divine procedure as not inferior to that of his friends (Job 13:1). “Lo, mine eye,” &c. Right in certain circumstances to main...
EXPOSITION JOB 13:1, JOB 13:2 The first two verses of Job 13:1. are closely connected with Job 12:1; fo
Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood. Now what you know, the same I also know. I am not inferior to you. Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I would desire to reason wit...
1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 28:21; Ecclesiastes 4:5; Isaiah 49:26; Is
Wherefore — And this may be a reason of his desire of liberty of speech, because he could hold his tongue no longer, but must needs tear himself to pieces, if he had not some vent for his grief. The p...