Job 29:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I brake the jaws of the wicked Hebrew, מתלעות, methallegnoth, dentes molares vel maxillas cum dentibus, the grinders, or the jawbones with the teeth, the sharpest and strongest teeth in the jaw; that is, the power and violence wherewith they used to oppress others. It is a metaphor taken from wild beasts, which tear and crush their prey with their teeth. And plucked the spoil out of his teeth Forced him to restore what he had violently taken away.