Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
mouth—literally, "palate." (See on Job 6:30).
wishing—literally, "so as to demand his (my enemy's) soul," that is, "life by a curse." This verse parenthetically confirms Job 31:30. Job in the patriarchal age of the promise, anterior to the law, realizes the Gospel spirit, which was the end of the law (compare Leviticus 19:18; Deuteronomy 23:6, with Matthew 5:43-44).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Job 31:30:
Job 31:30
Hosea 8:1
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