14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
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And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?
My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-22)Job here takes fresh hold, fast hold, of his integrity, as one that was resolved not to let it go, nor suffer it to be wrested from him. His firmness in this matter is commendable and his warmth excusable. I. He entreats his friends and all the company to let him alone, and not interrupt him in what he was about to say (Job 13:13), but diligently to hearken to it, Job 13:17. He would have his own…
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