10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
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Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
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.
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
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.
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-11)Eliphaz here advances another argument to prove Job a hypocrite, and will have not only his impatience under his afflictions to be evidence against him but even his afflictions themselves, being so very great and extraordinary, and there being no prospect at all of his deliverance out of them. To strengthen his argument he here lays down these two principles, which seem plausible enough:— I. That…
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