| Job 13:14
| Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?
| Why you seem to ask do I thus eagerly desire to die, (Haydock) as if I were tearing my own flesh, and exposing my soul to danger, (Worthington) like a madman? (Tirinus) --- Is it not better for me to address myself to God, that he would hasten my departure, than thus to tear my flesh with my teeth? (Calmet) --- Some have supposed that Job really did so in extreme anguish, (Ven. Bede) the leprosy occasioning such an insupportable irritation. (Haydock) --- But the expression insinuates an interior anguish or despair; (Isaias 49:26.) in which sense Pythagoras enjoins, "not to eat the heart." --- Hands, in imminent danger of death, Psalm 118:109. --- St. Gregory explains it in a moral sense: "It is to manifest the intention of the heart by the actions." (Haydock)
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