He hath made me also a byword of the people, God had set him as a proverb before the whole world, the name of Job suggested to the minds of men everywhere a great misery inflicted by the Lord; and aforetime I was as a tabret, one into whose face the passers-by could freely spit, the object of the most unqualified contempt.
Verse Job 17:6. _HE HATH MADE ME ALSO A BY-WORD_] My afflictions and calamities have become a subject of general conversation, so that my poverty and affliction are proverbial. _As poor as Job, As_ _a...
HE HATH ALSO - That is, God has done this. ALSO A BY-WORD - A proverb (משׁל _mâshâl_); a term of reproach, ridicule, or scorn. lie has exposed me to derision. AND AFORETIME - Margin “before them.”...
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 16:22 TO JOB 17:16. Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must now die. JOB 17:2 is obscure; the general sense seems to be...
AFORETIME. in former times. Compare Ruth 4:7, TABRET. a drum. Hebrew. _topheth._ To the sound and warning of which people gave heed. See note on 1 Samuel 10:5. After this verse imagine. pause....
New appeal to God that He would undertake for Job or give him a pledge that he would cause his innocence to be acknowledged by God, Job 17:3; with the grounds for this prayer as before, Job 17:4....
These verses support the petition in Job 17:3. If God will not undertake for Job none else will, for the hearts of his friends have been blinded. This thought of the perverse obstinacy and cruelty of...
This verse reads, I am made also a byeword or the peoples, And am become one to be spit on in the face. The words, _I am made_might mean, as A.V., _He hath made me_, the reference being to God. Und...
Job 16:18 to Job 17:9. Job, dying a martyr's death, beseeches God that He would uphold his right with God and against men, and give him a pledge that He will make his innocence appear In Job 16:12 Jo...
HE HATH MADE ME ALSO A BY-WORD— _But they have marked me out for a by-word of the people; nay, I am even a prodigy in their sight._ Heath....
4. Yet his condition is such that his hope will soon go with him to the grave. (Job 17:1-16) TEXT 17:1-16 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is _ready_ for me. 2 Surely there are...
_HE HATH MADE ME ALSO A BYWORD OF THE PEOPLE; AND AFORETIME I WAS AS A TABRET._ He - God. The poet reverentially suppresses the name of God when speaking of calamities inflicted. BYWORD - (Deuterono...
17:6 proverb (f-7) Or 'byword.'...
HE HATH MADE ME] Render, 'I am made.' AND AFORETIME, etc.] RV 'And I am become an open abhorring.' 8, 9. The upright, astonished at Job's calamities, will rise against the ungodly, while the righteou...
JOB'S FOURTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises of restoration in the pre...
Job was innocent, but he suffered greatly. Jesus was also innocent, and he too suffered greatly. Sometimes Job’s words remind us about Jesus’ death. See also Psalms 22 and Isaiah chapter 53. The autho...
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 17 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...
HE (_i.e.,_ God) HATH MADE ME ALSO A BYWORD of THE PEOPLE; AND AFORETIME I WAS AS A TABRET. — Or, _I_ _am become as a tabret, or drum openly, i.e.,_ a signal of warning. “My case will be fraught with...
וְֽ֭ הִצִּגַנִי לִ מְשֹׁ֣ל עַמִּ֑ים וְ תֹ֖פֶת
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...
“THE BARS OF SHEOL” Job 17:1 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks that God would...
Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterable...
He hath made me also a (g) byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. (g) God has made all the world speak of me, because of my afflictions....
_Example. Protestants, "a tabret." (Haydock) --- The people sing over my misfortune, Lamentations iii. 14. I am represented as a victim of God's just indignation. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "a laughter,...
(4) For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. (5) He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. (6) He hath made me a...
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...
HE HATH MADE ME ALSO A BYWORD OF THE PEOPLE,.... Either Eliphaz, or God; for whatsoever befell him, whether more immediately by the hand of God, or by any instrument, the ascribes it to him, as being...
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. Ver. 6. _He hath made me also a byword of the people_] Here Job returns to his old task of setting forth his own misery;...
_He_ That is, God, who is generally designed by this pronoun in this book; _hath made me also a by-word of the people_ Or, a proverb, or subject of common talk. My miseries are so great and unpreceden...
Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...
AFORETIME: Or, before them...
"Like. roller coaster, Job's emotions moved up and down rapidly. After requesting God to provide. bond for him, he accused God of making him. byword (literally,. proverb). In other words, people had b...
1-9 Job reflects upon the harsh censures his friends had passed upon him, and, looking on himself as a dying man, he appeals to God. Our time is ending. It concerns us carefully to redeem the days of...
HE, i.e. God, who is oft designed by this pronoun in this book. A BY-WORD, or _proverb_, or _common talk_. My calamities are so great and prodigious, that they fill all people with discourse, and are...
Job 17:6 made H3322 (H8689) byword H4914 people H5971 face H6440 spit H8611 a byword - Job 30:9;...
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He longs for death. CHARACTERS: Job. CONCLUSION: The believer should recognize that wherever he goes there is but a step between him and the grave and should always...
Job 17:1. _My breath is corrupt._ Schultens reads, _corruptus est spiritus meus:_ “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye weeps...
_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Bemoans his dying condition (Job 17:1). “My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished, as a l...
EXPOSITION JOB 17:1 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1. It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment by his friends, and...
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation? Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who...
1 Kings 9:7; Genesis 31:27; Isaiah 5:12; Job 30:9; Psalms 44:14...