Job 16:10
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].Psalms 38:11
11, 12. Friends desert, but foes increase in malignity.
Luke 23:49
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