Bible Commentaries
Introduction
| 1 | Job reproves his friends for unmercifulness. | | 17 | He maintains his innocency. |
Verse 2
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
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- heard
- 6:6,25; 11:2,3; 13:5; 19:2,3; 26:2,3; James 1:19
- miserable
- or, troublesome.
- 13:4; Psalms 69:26; Philippians 1:16
Verse 3
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
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- vain words
- Heb. words of wind.
- 6:26; 8:2; 15:2
- what emboldeneth
- 20:3; 32:3-6; Matthew 22:46; Titus 1:11; 2:8
Verse 4
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
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- if your soul
- 6:2-5,14; Matthew 7:12; Romans 12:15; 1 Corinthians 12:26
- up words
- 11:2; 35:16; Proverbs 10:19; Ecclesiastes 10:14
- shake mine
- 2 Kings 19:21; Psalms 22:7; 44:14; 109:25; Jeremiah 18:16; Lamentations 2:15; Matthew 27:39,40
Verse 5
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
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- But I would
- 4:3,4; 6:14; 29:25; Psalms 27:14; Proverbs 27:9,17; Isaiah 35:3,4; Galatians 6:1
Verse 6
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
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- my grief
- 10:1; Psalms 77:1-9; 88:15-18
- what am I eased
- Heb. what goeth from me.
Verse 7
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
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- he hath
- 3:17; 7:3,16; 10:1; Psalms 6:6,7; Proverbs 3:11,12; Isaiah 50:4; Micah 6:13
- hast made
- 1:15-19; 29:5-25
Verse 8
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
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- And thou hast, etc
- Some render, "thou has fettered me," as kamat signifies in Arabic; but as it signifies in Syriac to be wrinkled, the common version seems, from the connexion, to be more correct; and if Job's disease were the elephantiasis, these words would apply most forcibly to the wrinkled state of the skin in that disorder.
- is a witness
- 10:17; Ruth 1:21; Ephesians 5:27
- my leanness
- Psalms 106:15; Isaiah 10:16; 24:16
Verse 9
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
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- teareth me
- 10:16,17; 18:4; Psalms 50:22; Lamentations 3:10; Hosea 5:14
- he gnasheth
- Psalms 35:16; 37:12; Lamentations 2:16
- mine
- 13:24,27; 19:11; Micah 7:8
Verse 10
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
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- gaped
- Psalms 22:13,16,17; 35:21; Luke 23:35,36
- they have smitten
- 1 Kings 22:24; 2 Chronicles 18:23; Isaiah 50:6; Lamentations 3:30; Micah 5:1; Matthew 26:67; John 18:22; Acts 23:2; 2 Corinthians 11:20
- gathered
- Psalms 35:15; 94:21; Acts 4:27
Verse 11
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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- delivered me
- Heb. shut me up.
- 1 Samuel 24:18; *marg:; Psalms 31:8; Romans 11:32; *marg:
- to the ungodly
- 1:13-19; 2:7; Psalms 7:14; John 19:16; 2 Corinthians 12:7
- turned
- Psalms 27:12
Verse 12
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
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- at ease
- 1:2,3; 3:26; 29:3,18,19
- broken me
- 4:10; Psalms 44:19; Lamentations 3:4; Matthew 21:44
- by my neck
- 15:26; Romans 16:4
- shaken
- Lamentations 3:11; Ezekiel 29:7
- set me up
- 7:12,20; Lamentations 3:12
Verse 13
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
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- archers
- 6:4; Genesis 49:23; Psalms 7:12,13
- he cleaveth
- 19:27; Lamentations 3:13
- doth
- 6:10; Deuteronomy 29:20; Ezekiel 5:11; Romans 8:32; 2 Peter 2:5
- poureth
- 20:25; Lamentations 2:11
Verse 14
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
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- breaketh
- Lamentations 3:3-5
- runneth
- Judges 15:8; Psalms 42:7
Verse 15
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
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- sewed
- 1 Kings 21:27; Isaiah 22:12
- defiled my horn
- 30:19; 1 Samuel 2:10; Psalms 7:5; 75:5,10
Verse 16
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
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- face
- Psalms 6:6,7; 31:9; 32:3; 69:3; 102:3-5,9; Isaiah 52:14; Lamentations 1:16
- on my eyelids
- 17:7; Psalms 116:3; Jonah 2:1-10; Mark 14:34
Verse 17
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
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- Not for
- 11:14; 15:20,34; 21:27,28; 22:5-9; 27:6,7; 29:12-17; 31:1-40; Psalms 7:3-5; 44:17-21
- my prayer
- 8:5,6; Psalms 66:18,19; Proverbs 15:8; 1 Timothy 2:8
Verse 18
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
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- O earth
- Jeremiah 22:29
- cover not
- Genesis 4:11; Nehemiah 4:5; Isaiah 26:21; Ezekiel 24:7
- let my cry
- 27:9; Psalms 66:18,19; Isaiah 1:15; 58:9,10; James 4:3,4
Verse 19
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
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- my witness
- 1 Samuel 12:5; Romans 1:9; 9:1; 2 Corinthians 1:23; 11:31; 1 Thessalonians 2:10
- on high
- Heb. in the high places.
- 25:2; Psalms 113:5
Verse 20
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
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- scorn me
- Heb. are my scorners.
- 4; 12:4,5; 17:2
- poureth
- Psalms 109:4; 142:2; Hosea 12:4,5; Luke 6:11,12; Hebrews 5:7
Verse 21
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
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- plead
- 9:34,35; 13:3,22; 23:3-7; 31:35; 40:1-5; Ecclesiastes 6:10; Isaiah 45:9; Romans 9:20
- neighbour
- or, friend.
Verse 22
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
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- a few years
- Heb. years of number.
- 14:5,14
- whence
- 7:9,10; 14:10; Ecclesiastes 12:5
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Bibliography Information
Torrey, R. A. "Commentary on Job 16:4". "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". http://odl.studylight.org/commentaries/tsk/job-16.html.
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