Job 29:17

wicked. Hebrew. 'avvil. App-44. See note on Job 18:21.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I brake the jaws of the wicked - Margin, “jaw-teeth, or, grinders.” The Hebrew word מתלעה m e thall e ‛âh , the same, with the le...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 29. Job's Former Happy Days. Job 29:1-6 . Job longs that he might once again live as of old under God's favour. In Job 29:4 secret means in...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. I brake the jaws of the wicked - A metaphor taken from hunting. A beast o...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The grounds on which Job was praised ( Job 29:...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Past Greatness and Happiness Job mournfully recalls the days of God's favour, and the prosperity and honour he once enjoyed. In this chapter...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become in...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Bitter Memory of the Happy Past Job 29:1-25 How many thousands, looking back on the beautiful dawn of life which has become overcast, have...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job now moved a step forward in his reply. He was still without a solution. That of his friends he utterly repudiated. In order to prepare the way fo...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(6) When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; (7) В¶ When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepare...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I brake the jaws of the wicked ,.... Their jaw teeth, or grinders, alluding to beasts of prey, who have such teeth, very large; the meaning may...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. Ver. 17. And I brake the laws of the wicked ] It is a mercy to have ju...
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 t...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOB'S PAST GREATNESS In this chapter Job dwells upon the honour and dignity that had been his in the past. While he was sincere in what he said, a...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and th...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The jaws; or, the jaw-bones ; or, the grinders , the sharpest and strongest teeth in the jaw, i.e. their power and violence wherewith they used t...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S RETROSPECT Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends,...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 29:3 . When his candle shined upon my head; that is, when the light of his countenance shone upon me, in every form of patriarchal prosperity....
The Biblical Illustrator

I put on righteousness. Ad magistratum When others do us open wrong, it is not vanity, but charity, to do ourselves open right. And whatsoever...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 29:1-18 From these deep musings upon the nature of true wisdom, and the contrast between the ingenuity and cleverness of man...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Speaks of his Benevolence and the Honor Accorded Him
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, of all the hard-hearted, who oppressed the poor, especially of unrighteous judges, and plucked the spoil out of...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 17:35 ; Proverbs 30:14 ; Psalms 124:3 ; Psalms 124:6 ; Psalms 3:7 ; Psalms 58:8

¹⁷ And I brake the jawsd of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

Related Commentaries of Job 29:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 29:17