17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
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Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-17)We have here Job in a post of honour and power. Though he had comfort enough in his own house, yet he did not confine himself to that. We are not born for ourselves, but for the public. When any business was to be done in the gate, the place of judgment, Job went out to it through the city (Job 29:7), not in an affectation of pomp, but in an affection to justice. Observe, Judgment was administered…
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