Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
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Gill's Exposition
For he is not a man, as I am,.... For though the parts and members of an human body are sometimes ascribed to him, yet these are to be understood by an anthropopathy, speaking after the manner of men,…
Barnes' Notes
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch - God would treat me as if he should throw me into the gutter, and as if I were wholly defiled and polluted. The meaning is, God would not admit the proofs which…
Job here grows more and more querulous, and does not conclude this chapter with such reverent expressions of God's wisdom and justice as he began with. Those that indulge a complaining humour know not…
Cambridge Bible
An expressive figure for, to cover again with uncleanness. The naked body (Job 9:9) is supposed plunged in the ditch, and the clothes refuse to cover so foul an object.
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