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By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
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Suffering as a Garment
Commentators explain that the most powerful meaning here is metaphorical. Job's pain and disease have become his clothing, wrapping around him completely. The phrase 'as the collar of my coat' emphasizes how tightly this suffering constricts him, feeling inescapable and suffocating. It's a profound image of being totally consumed by affliction.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
By the great force of my disease - The words “of my disease” are not in the Hebrew. The usual interpretation of the passage is that, as a co…
19th Century
Anglican
My garment changed. —Some render “By His (i.e., God’s) great power the garment (of my skin) is disfigured;” and others, “With grea…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed Either the colour of it, through the purulent matter from h…
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Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin that, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join wit…
13th Century
Catholic
After listing the many prosperous things he had enjoyed in the past, Job now lists the adversities he was suffering. He begins by showing that, in …
