“ Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? ”
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth - The meaning of the proverbial expressions in this verse is not very clear. They indicate a state of great danger; but the exact sense of the proverbs it...
Wherefore do I (e) take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? (e) Is not this a revealed sign of my affliction and that I do not complain without cause, seeing that I am thus tormented...
Job turns to plead his cause with God. He will speak whatever it costs ( Job 13:13-15 ). This also, he says, shall be my deliverance, that a godless man will not come before Him. Job means that his d...
Wherefore... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. take my flesh in my teeth. Figure of speech Paroemia. App-6. Still preserved in Arabic for rushing into danger. Like the next clause, which i...
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth - A proverbial expression. I risk every thing on the justice of my cause. I put my lif...
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, &c.?— That is, "You ask me, why I should consider my case as thus desperate? (for that is the meaning of these phrases.) Why should you be thus slow to...
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? A proverb for, 'Why should I anxiously desire to save my life?' (Eichorn). The image in the first clause is that of a wi...
Job's Third Speech (continued) 1-12. Job claims to understand as much about God as the friends. He rejects their opinion as to the cause of his troubles, and regards it as an attempt to curry favo...
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth. — This is probably the meaning of this verse, which, however, should not be read interrogatively: “At all risks, come what come may, I will take my flesh i...
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he...
“Though He Slay Me” Job 13:1-28 The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4-12 . Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his sins, for which he...
Continuing his answer, Job restated his conviction that his knowledge was not inferior to theirs, and declared that his appeal was to God (1-3). Before making this appeal there is an introductory pas...
(1) В¶ Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. (2) What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. (3) Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I d...
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth ,.... Or bite my lips, to keep in my words, and refrain from speaking? I will not do it: and put my life in my hand ? or, expose it to danger by a forced s...
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? Ver. 14. Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? ] q.d. Do ye think, O my friends, that I am in a fit of spiritual frenz...
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth , &c. The sense, according to some commentators, is, Why do I torment myself? Why do I grieve so immoderately, like those persons who, in their afflictio...
JOB DECLARES HIMSELF FULLY EQUAL TO HIS FRIENDS (vv.1-12) Job has spoken at length of God's wisdom and power, now he tells Zophar that his eye has seen all this, his ear has heard it and underst...
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. 14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? 15 Though he slay me, yet wi...
According to this translation the sense seems to be this, If you speak truth, and God punisheth none but wicked men, why doth he bring me (whom he knows to be no hypocrite, as you slander me) to that...
JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR—CONTINUED I. Job re-asserts his knowledge of the Divine procedure as not inferior to that of his friends ( Job 13:1-2 ). “Lo, mine eye,” &c. Right in certain circumsta...
Job 13:4 . Forgers of lies, misconstruing the ways of providence. Job 13:10 , He will surely reprove you, though under a specious veil you accept of persons. Job 13:12 . Your remembrance...
EXPOSITION Job 13:1 , Job 13:2 The first two verses of Job 13:1-18 . are closely connected with Job 12:1-18 ; forming the natural termination to the first section of Job's argument,...
Job's Comfort and Prayer
1 Samuel 19:5 ; 1 Samuel 28:21 ; Ecclesiastes 4:5 ; Isaiah 49:26 ; Isaiah 9:20 ; Job 18:4 ; Judges 12:3 ; Psalms 119:109
Wherefore — And this may be a reason of his desire of liberty of speech, because he could hold his tongue no longer, but must needs tear himself to pieces, if he had not some vent for his grief. Th...