Job 31:22
Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
If I have made gold my hope,.... Job here purges himself from idolatry in a figurative sense, as he afterwards does from it, taken in a literal sense; for covetousness is idolatry, and a covetous man…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
Then let mine arm - The strong language which Job uses here, shows his consciousness of innocence, and his detestation of the offences to which he here refers, Job 31:16-22. The word rendered “arm”…
Eliphaz had particularly charged Job with unmercifulness to the poor (Job 22:6, etc.): Thou hast withholden bread from the hungry, stripped the naked of their clothing, and sent widows away empty. One…
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