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Gill's Exposition
Who can open the doors of his face?.... Of his mouth, the jaws thereof, which are like a pair of folding doors: the jaws of a crocodile have a prodigious opening. Peter Martyr (u) speaks of one, whose…
Barnes' Notes
Who can open the doors of his face? - His mouth. The same term is sti 1 used to denote the mouth - from its resemblance to a door. The idea is, that no one would dare to force open his mouth. This…
Adam Clarke
The doors of his face? - His jaws which are most tremendous.
God, having in the foregoing verses shown Job how unable he was to deal with the leviathan, here sets forth his own power in that massy mighty creature. Here is,
I. God's sovereign dominion and…
Cambridge Bible
who can open Or, who hath opened. The "doors of his face" is an expression for his "mouth" which has something artificial and forced in it.
his teeth are terrible The jaws of the crocodile are very…
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