Chapter 19 – FAMILIA MUNDIAL
1 [20] With my flesh between my teeth: meaning perhaps that Job has been reduced to such an extremity that he scarcely has thin lips over his teeth. But the current Hebrew text of this line is probably corrupt.
2 [22] Divine: possessing God’s attributes of judgment and authority to punish.
3 [23-24] Job regards what he is about to say as so important that he wishes it recorded in a permanent manner.
4 [25, 27] The meaning of this passage is obscure because the original text has been poorly preserved and the ancient versions do not agree among themselves. It is certain that Job expresses his belief in a future vindication by God (called here in the Hebrew «Goel»), but the time and manner of this vindication are undefined. In the Vulgate Job is made to indicate a belief in physical resurrection after death, but the Hebrew and the other ancient versions are less specific.