Job 16:9
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His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
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This chapter begins Job's reply to that discourse of Eliphaz which we had in the foregoing chapter; it is but the second part of the same song of lamentation with which he had before bemoaned himself, and is set to the same melancholy tune. I. He upbraids his friends with their unkind usage of him (Job 16:1-5). II. He represents his own case as very deplorable upon all accounts (Job 16:6-16). III. He still holds fast his integrity, concerning which he appeals to God's righteous judgment from the unrighteous censures of his friends (Job 16:14-22).
Open source ↗16:9-10 jeer and laugh at me: Job was the subject of mockery (cp. Ps 35:21; Isa 57:4; Lam 2:16; 3:46). • To slap the cheek was less an act of violence (Ps 3:7; Mic 5:1) than an insult (1 Kgs 22:24; Isa 50:6; Lam 3:30; Matt 26:67).
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All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.