RV 'Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your defences are defences of clay.' Job regards their view as worthless, and their arguments such as any one could refute.

13-22. He turns from man, and boldly pleads his cause with God.

14, 15. Render, with a slight alteration, 'I will take my flesh in my teeth and I will put my life in my hand (be daring). Lo, he will slay me: I have no hope, but I will maintain my words before him.' The meaning of the phrase 'to take the flesh in the teeth' is uncertain. Probably it signifies just the same as to 'put the life in the hand,' which means to dare the uttermost peril. Job is resolved to speak out, though he feels that God will kill him for doing it.

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