Job 29:17 - Exposition

And I brake the jaws of the wicked (comp. Psalms 58:6 ). It is scarcely meant, as Canon Cook supposes, that Job was himself the executioner. " Quod facit per allure facit per so ." Job would regard as Age doing what he ordered to be done. And plucked the spoil out of his teeth . Either by disappointing him of a prey which he was on the verge of making ms own, or by compelling him to make restitution of a prey that he had actually laid hold of.