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Job 16:7-22
Job Shows The Pitifulness of his Case and Maintains his Innocence
Job Shows The Pitifulness of his Case and Maintains his Innocence
Verse Job 16:7. _BUT NOW HE HATH MADE ME WEARY_] The _Vulgate_ translates thus: - _Nunc autem oppressit me dolor meus; et in nihilum redacti_ _sunt omnes artus mei_; "But now my grief oppresses me, a...
BUT NOW HE HATH MADE ME WEARY - That is, God has exhausted my strength. This verse introduces a new description of his sufferings; and he begins with a statement of the woes that God had brought on hi...
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...
_made me weary_ i. e. _exhausted_me; and _now_describes the new situation which he realizes. The second clause indicates in what way he had been wearied or exhausted, all his "company," his familiar f...
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...
BUT NOW HE HATH MADE ME WEARY— _For my trouble hath now weakened all my frame, and brought wrinkles over me,_ Job 16:8. _He is present as a witness, and ariseth against me, who telleth lies concerning...
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...
_BUT NOW HE HATH MADE ME WEARY: THOU HAST MADE DESOLATE ALL MY COMPANY._ But now - truly now. HE - God. COMPANY - `all my family,' 'all my band of witnesses,'-namely, those who could attest his i...
16:7 family; (d-15) Or 'assembly,' 'company.'...
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....
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...
In these verses, Job described his troubles. He blamed his enemy for these troubles. Job thought that God caused these troubles. Job did not know that the devil was responsible. But Job was very care...
BUT NOW HE HATH MADE ME WEARY. — He turns again, in his passionate plaint, to God, whom he alternately speaks of in the third person and addresses in the second. “Thou hast made desolate all my compan...
אַךְ ־עַתָּ֥ה הֶלְאָ֑נִי הֲ֝שִׁמֹּ֗ותָ כָּל ־עֲדָתִֽי׃...
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...
But now (g) he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my (h) company. (g) Meaning, God. (h) That is, destroyed most of my family....
_But. Hebrew, "If I speak," &c._...
(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...
BUT NOW HE HATH MADE ME WEARY,.... Or "it hath made me weary" u, that is, "my grief", as it may be supplied from Job 16:6; or rather God, as appears from the next clause, and from the following verse,...
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. Ver. 7. _But now he hath made me weary_] _i.e._ God, whom he acknowledgeth the author of his afflictions; but he should better h...
_But now he_ Namely, God; _hath made me weary_ Either of complaining, or of my life. “He hath long since quite tired me with one trouble upon another.” Bishop Patrick. _Thou hast made desolate all my...
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...
Job feels that God has worn him down, he had been deprived of friends and family and his once healthy body is now emaciated. And such. lean and gaunt body only gives his friends. reason to accuse him...
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...
BUT; or, _surely_, as this Hebrew particle most commonly signifies. _He_, i.e. God, as appears by the following words and verses. HATH MADE ME WEARY; either of complaining, or of my life. THOU; he spe...
Job 16:7 out H3811 (H8689) desolate H8074 (H8689) company H5712 he hath - Job 3:17,...
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...
_But now He hath made me weary._ WEARINESS UNDER AFFLICTION The word “he” is not in the original. Some understand it of his grief and sorrow, and read thus, “And now it hath made me weary,” or, my pa...
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’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...
Isaiah 50:4; Job 1:15; Job 10:1; Job 29:5; Job 3:17;...
He — God, as appears by the following words. Weary — Either of complaining, or, of my life. Desolate — Hast turned my society into desolation, by destroying my children and servants....