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Job 16:15
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, stitching it about his loins as a garment of mourning, and defiled my horn in the dust, all his power and dignity had been covered with the deepest humiliation.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, stitching it about his loins as a garment of mourning, and defiled my horn in the dust, all his power and dignity had been covered with the deepest humiliation.
Verse Job 16:15. _I HAVE SEWED SACKCLOTH_] שק _sak_, a word that has passed into almost all languages, as I have already had occasion to notice in other parts of this work. _DEFILED MY HORN IN THE D...
I HAVE SEWED SACKCLOTH - I have put on the badges of humiliation and grief; see the notes at Isaiah 3:24. This was the usual emblem of mourning. In order more deeply to express it, or to make it a “pe...
CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ _ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_ 2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6) 3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15) 4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...
JOB 16:6 contain a bitter complaint of God's ferocity against Job, in spite of his innocence. The connexion of Job 16:6 with the context is not clear: RV translation is probably, however, correct. Wit...
SEWED SACKCLOTH, &C. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the sorrow which accompanied it....
Putting on sackcloth was the sign of mourning; it was worn next the skin, 2 Kings 6:30. By _sewing_it on Job indicates that it is his habitual garment, which he never puts off; though the word may als...
Job realizes to himself his new condition: God and men combine to pursue him with their enmity, though he is innocent of all wrong In Job 16:5 Job flung back with scorn the "comforts of God" which th...
Condition to which the sufferer was brought by these destructive attacks of God in His hostility....
I HAVE SEWED SACKCLOTH— The meaning of this verse is, _I have sewn sackcloth_ (in token of grief) _over my torn skin, and have defiled my head, my horn,_ or _honour, with ashes._ See Schultens and Hea...
2. Though innocent, he suffers the hostility of God and man. (Job 16:6-17) TEXT 16:6-17 6 THOUGH I SPEAK, MY GRIEF IS NOT ASSUAGED; And though I forbear, what am I eased? 7 But now he hath made me...
_I HAVE SEWED SACKCLOTH UPON MY SKIN, AND DEFILED MY HORN IN THE DUST._ Sewed - denoting the tight fit of the mourning garment: it was a sack with arm-holes, closely sewed to the body. HORN - image...
16:15 rolled (b-9) Or 'defiled.'...
JOB'S FOURTH SPEECH (JOB 16:17) See introductory remarks on Job 15-21. 1-5. Job retorts scornfully that he too could offer such empty 'comfort' if he were in the friends' place....
SACKCLOTH] the sign of mourning. HORN] the emblem of pride and strength....
Job’s troubles seemed to prove that Job was guilty (verse 8). Job’s friends believed this (Job 22:4-11). But the Bible does not teach this idea (John 9:1-3). Job was sure that he was innocent. And God...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 16 JOB REPLIES TO ELIPHAZ’S...
I HAVE SEWED SACKCLOTH UPON MY SKIN. — Referring, probably, to the state of his skin, which had become hard and rugged as sackcloth. As the second half of the verse must be figurative, there seems to...
שַׂ֣ק תָּ֭פַרְתִּי עֲלֵ֣י גִלְדִּ֑י וְ עֹלַ֖לְתִּי...
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1; Job 17:1 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying term...
TURNING FROM “MISERABLE COMFORTERS” UNTO GOD Job 16:1 With bitterness the sufferer turns from his comforters to God. As the r.v. makes clear, he says that if he were in their place and they in his,...
Job immediately answered. His answer dealt less with the argument they suggested than before. While the darkness was still about him, and in some senses the agony of his soul was deepening, yet it is...
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my (p) horn in the dust. (p) Meaning, his glory was brought low....
(7) But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. (8) And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
I HAVE SEWED SACKCLOTH UPON MY SKIN,.... Which he very probably put on when he rent his mantle, or sat in ashes, Job 1:20; which actions were usually performed together in times of distress and sorrow...
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. Ver. 15. _I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin_] Not silks, but sackcloth, is now mine immediate clothing, next to my very skin, w...
_I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin_ I have put on sackcloth, not upon my other garments, but next to my skin; as was done in great calamities. So far am I from _stretching out my hands against God_,...
JOB REPROVES THEIR HEARTLESSNESS (vv.1-5) Eliphaz had claimed to be giving Job "the consolations of God," and this moves Job to reply bitterly, "Miserable comforters are you all!" (v.2). Instead of...
As. result, Job was wearing sackcloth, and he had thrust his "horn in the dust", "the figure of. defeated animal" _(Zuck p. 77)._...
6-16 Here is a doleful representation of Job's grievances. What reason we have to bless God, that we are not making such complaints! Even good men, when in great troubles, have much ado not to entert...
i.e. I put on sackcloth sewed together, not upon my other garments, but next to my skin, as was done in great calamities; as 2 KINGS 6:30. So far am I from _stretching out my hands against God_, where...
Job 16:15 sewn H8609 (H8804) sackcloth H8242 skin H1539 laid H5953 (H8782) head H7161 dust H6083 sewed -
CONTENTS: Job charges that Eliphaz is but heaping up words. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: It is a great comfort to a good man who lies under the censures of brethren who do not un...
Job 16:2. _Miserable comforters are ye all._ The Vulgate, “burdensome comforters,” who afflicted instead of consoling their friend. Job 16:3. _Shall vain words have an end._ He plainly tells Eliphaz...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 16:1 Job responds again. He begins by pointing out that his friends have failed as comforters (Job 16:2), even though comfort was their original purpose for coming to him (see...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 16:15 SEWED SACKCLOTH UPON MY SKIN. Job’s constant grief is like a coarse cloth stitched to his skin, a reality of unending pain. LAID MY STRENGTH IN THE DUST. Literally, “buried my ho...
_JOB’S SECOND REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Complains of the want of sympathy on the part of his friends (Job 16:2). 1. _They gave him only verses from the ancients about the punishment of the wicked and the...
EXPOSITION Job answers the second speech of Eliphaz in a discourse which occupies two (short) chapters, and is thus not much more lengthy than the speech of his antagonist. His tone is very despairing...
So Job answered and said, I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all. Shall empty words (Job 16:1) Talking about vanity, he said, Shall empty words have an end? or what emboldens...
1 Kings 21:27; 1 Samuel 2:10; Isaiah 22:12; Job 30:19; Psalms 7:5;...
I have — So far am I from stretching out my hand against God, Job 15:25, that I have humbled myself deeply under his hand. I have not only put on sackcloth, but sewed it on, as being resolved to conti...