Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Image from combating with wild beasts (Job 4:11; Psalms 3:7). So compassionate was Job to the oppressed, so terrible to the oppressor!
jaws—Job broke his power, so that he could do no more hurt, and tore from him the spoil, which he had torn from others.
The grounds on which Job was praised (Job 29:11), his helping the afflicted (Psalms 72:12) who cried to him for help, as a judge, or as one possessed of means of charity. Translate: "The fatherless who had none to help him."
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