Job 31:22 - Exposition

Then let mine arm (rather, my shoulder ) fall from my shoulder-blade . Job was, perhaps, led to make this rather strange imprecation by the fact that, in the disease from which he was suffering, portions of bone sometimes detach themselves and come away. And mine arm be broken from the bone . My forearm, i.e , detach itself from the bone of the upper arm, and come away from it.