Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Job 16:10
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Job16:10
10. gaped--not in order to devour, but to mock him. To fill his cup of misery, the mockery of his friends (Job 16:10) is added to the hostile treatment from God (Job 16:9).
smitten ... cheek--figurative for contemptuous abuse (La 3:30; Mt 5:39).
gathered themselves--"conspired unanimously" [Schuttens].
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