Job 32:19

Behold, my belly is as wine, which hath no vent,.... Or, "is not opened" (a), like a bottle of wine, as Ben Gersom, which is stopped close, and the wine in it new; which is most apt to ferment, and…

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent - Margin, as in Hebrew, “is not opened” - לאיפתח lo' yipâthach. The repherence is to a bottle, in which there is no opening, or no vent phor the…

My belly is as wine which hath no vent - New wine in a state of effervescence.

Like new bottles - Bottles, or rather bags, made of goat-skins. The head and shanks being cut off, the animal is cased…

Three things here apologize for Elihu's interposing as he does in this controversy which had already been canvassed by such acute and learned disputants: -

1. That the stage was clear, and he did not…

Elihu feels a crowd of thoughts and arguments fermenting in his bosom and pressing for utterance with a force not to be resisted. The word "belly" corresponds to the English "breast" or bosom. What…