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30. mouth--literally, "palate."
(See on
Job 6:30).
wishing--literally, "so as to demand his (my enemy's) soul," that
is, "life by a curse." This verse parenthetically confirms
Job 31:30.
Job in the patriarchal age of the promise, anterior to the law,
realizes the Gospel spirit, which was the end of the law (compare
Le 19:18;
De 23:6,
with Mt 5:43, 44).
JFB.
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