His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.Job 16:9 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleHe teareth me in his wrath - Who the person is that is spoken of in this verse, and onward to the end of the fourteenth, has been a question on which commentators have greatly differed. Some think God, others Eliphaz, is intended: I think neither. Probably God permitted Satan to show himself to Job, and the horrible form which he and his demons assumed increased the misery under which Job had already suffered so much. All the expressions, from this to the end of the fourteenth verse, may be easily understood on this principle; e.g., Job 16:9 : "He (Satan) gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me." Job 16:10 : "They (demons) have gaped on me with their mouth; - they have gathered themselves together against me." Job 16:11 : "God hath delivered me to the ungodly, (עויל avil, to the Evil One), and turned me over into the hands of the wicked." He hath abandoned me to be tortured by the tempter and his host. If we consider all these expressions as referring to Job's three friends, we must, in that case, acknowledge that the figures are all strained to an insufferable height, so as not to be justified by any figure of speech.
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teareth me
Job 10:16,17 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself marvelous on me...
Job 18:4 He tears himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for you? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
Psalm 50:22 Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Lamentations 3:10 He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
Hosea 5:14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away...
he gnasheth
Psalm 35:16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed on me with their teeth.
Psalm 37:12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes on him with his teeth.
Lamentations 2:16 All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up...
mine
Job 13:24,27 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy...
Job 19:11 He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me to him as one of his enemies.
Micah 7:8 Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light to me.
Job 16:9 Parallel Commentaries
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