10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-16)Job’s complaint is here as bitter as any where in all his discourses, and he is at a stand whether to smother it or to give it vent. Sometimes the one and sometimes the other is a relief to the afflicted, according as the temper or the circumstances are; but Job found help by neither, Job 16:6. 1. Sometimes giving vent to grief gives ease; but, “ Though I speak ” (says Job), “ my grief is not assu…
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