Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 10:11

Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

11. fenced me ] Rather, woven, or, knit me.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh – This refers, undoubtedly, to the formation of man in his foetal existence, and is designed to denote that the whole organization of the human frame was to be traced to God. Grotius remarks that this is the order in which the infant is formed – that the skin appears first, then the flesh, then the harder parts of the frame. On this subject, the reader may consult Dunglisons Physiology, vol. ii. p. 340ff.

And hast fenced me – Margin, Hedged. Literally, Hast covered me. The sense is plain. God had formed him as he was, and to him he owed his life, and all that he had. Job asks with the deepest interest whether God would take down a frame formed in this manner, and reduce it again to dust? Would it not be more for his honor to preserve it still – at least to the common limit of human life?

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

Clothed me, i.e. covered my inward and more noble parts; which, as philosophers and physicians observe, are first formed. So he proceeds in describing mans formation gradually.

With bones and sinews; which are the stay and strength of the body; and some of them, as the skull and ribs, enclose and defend its vital and most noble parts.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

11. fencedor “inlaid”(Ps 139:15); “curiouslywrought” [UMBREIT].In the foeligtus the skin appears first, then the flesh, then theharder parts.

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh,…. The bones with flesh, which is the under garment, and the flesh with skin, which is the upper; which is artificially composed of intricate little arteries, veins, nerves, and glands, through which the blood continually circulates, and through innumerable pores, and transpires, of which pores 125,000 may be covered with a small grain of sand l, amazing! Timaeus Locrus m calls them invisible little mouths; see Eze 37:6; the order of generation seems to be observed; after the semen is hardened and consolidated, the inward parts are formed, and then the outward parts, the flesh and skin, to protect and defend them; and so are compared to clothes which are outside a man, and put about him; Porphyry n calls the body the clothing of the soul; see 2Co 5:4; the spiritual clothing of Job was the righteousness of his living Redeemer, who was to partake of the same flesh and blood with him, and stand on the earth in the fulness of time, and work out and bring in a righteousness for him, consisting of his obedience in life in the days of his flesh, and of his sufferings and death, or blood, by which he and every believer are justified before God; and with which being clothed, shall not be found naked:

and hast fenced me with bones and sinews; the bones are said by philosophers o to be the fences of the marrow, and the flesh the covering of them; the bones are the strength and stability of the human body; the sinews or nerves bind and hold the several parts of it together, and are of great use for its strength and motion: the bones, some of them are as pillars to support it, as those of the legs and thighs; and others are of use to act for it, offensively and defensively, as those of the hands and arms; and others are a cover and fence of the inward parts, as the ribs: Gussetius p seems inclined, could he have found an instance of the word being used for making a tent, which it has the signification of, to have rendered the words,

“with bones and sinews, thou hast given ate the form of a tabernacle; or, thou hast made me to be a tent;”

so the human body is called a tabernacle, 2Co 5:1; the skin and flesh being like veils or curtains, which cover; the bones are in the room of stakes, and the nerves instead of cords, the breast and belly a cavity: in a spiritual sense, a believer’s strength lies in the grace of Christ, in the Lord, and in the power of his might; his defence is the whole armour of God provided for him, particularly the helmet of salvation, the shield of faith, and the breastplate of righteousness, with which he is fenced and protected from every spiritual enemy; and will God suffer such an one to be destroyed, whom he hath taken such care of, both in a natural and spiritual manner?

l Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 4. p. 681. m De Anima Mundi, p. 18. n De Antro Nymph. o Timaeus Locrus, ib. p. 15. p Ebr. Comment. p. 555, 556.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

11. Fenced me Interwoven me. Just as we speak of muscular tissues, or the texture ( texere, to weave) of a physical organ. The Scriptures ascribe the origin of each individual to the creative work of God, as much so as the existence of Adam. “The order of creative growth is here from soft to hard,” says Grotius. “The Jews hold that a contrary order is to be observed in the resurrection.”

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 10:11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

Ver. 11. Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh ] Out of that soft and liquid substance (the slime of my parents’ loins), grossed first into a rude fleshy mass, and consolidated, thou hast made not only a thin skin and firm flesh, but also hard bones and knitting nerves; and all this for a garment or guardment to those more noble inward parts, the brain, heart, liver, &c., which Job here accounts to be the man, when he saith, “Thou hast clothed me,” that is, my vital parts, with the upper garment of skin, and with the under garment of flesh, all which, and the rest of the parts, both similar and organical, are in their origin but the same matter which God hath thus diversified, and all by the book, Psa 139:16 . Had he left out any member in his common place book, thou hadst wanted it, saith one.

And hast fenced me with bones and sinews ] Bones are the pillars of the body, giving it stability, straightness, and form. The Rabbis say, there are as many of them in man’s body as there are affirmative precepts in the law, that all his bones may say, Lord, who is like unto thee? &c., Psa 35:10 . By the sinews are the bones knit together, that upon them man may move from place to place as he pleaseth. Sense also and motion is by these, in their wonderful and inexplicable conjugations, conveyed to the rest of the parts. It is God alone that knoweth how the bones (think the same of the sinews, arteries, veins, gristles, flesh, and blood, &c.) do grow in the womb of her that is with child, Ecc 11:5 . The anatomists find out every day almost new wonders; and an ancient styles man the miracle of miracles. Besides what is seen, God hath packed many rarities, mysteries, yea, miracles together in man’s chest. And surely, saith Mr Caryl, if all the angels in heaven had studied to this day, they could not have cast man into a more curious mould, or have given a fairer or more correct edition of him.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

fenced me = knit me together.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

clothed: 2Co 5:2, 2Co 5:3

fenced: Heb. hedged, Job 40:17, Job 40:18, Eze 37:4-8, Eph 4:16

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 10:11. Thou hast clothed me with skin Covered my inward and more noble parts, which are first formed. So he proceeds in describing mans formation gradually. And fenced me with bones The stay and strength of the body; and some of them, as the scull and ribs, enclose and defend its vital parts.

Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments