They 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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Gill's Exposition
God hath delivered me up to the ungodly,.... The evil or wicked one, for it is in the singular number; and designs either Satan, into whose hands God had not only delivered his substance, but his…
Barnes' Notes
They have gaped upon me - Changing the form from the singular to the plural, and including “all” his pretended friends. Such a change in the number is not uncommon. His mind seems to have passed from…
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…
Cambridge Bible
Picture of the hostility of men the pack of petty foes that howl at the heels of his greater enemy.
have gaped Rather, they gape. Similarly, they smite. The figure of wild beasts is not strictly…
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