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Verse Job 16:16. _ON MY EYELIDS_ IS _THE SHADOW OF DEATH_] Death is
now _fast approaching_ me; already his _shadow_ is projected over me....
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MY FACE IS FOUL WITH WEEPING - Wemyss, “swelled.” Noyes,
“red.” Good, “tarnished.” Luther, “ist geschwollen” - is
swelled. So Jerome. The Septuagint, strangely enough, ἡ
γαστήρ μον συνκέκαυται, κ....
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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...
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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...
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SHADOW OF DEATH. Not. mere shade or shadow, but the deep darkness of
the grave. Compare Job 3:5; Job 10:21; Job 12:22; Job 24:17;...
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_My face is foul_ The word may mean _inflamed_, from a root signifying
to be red; or the root of the word may mean to ferment, and the
reference be to the swollen and blurred appearance of the face fr...
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Condition to which the sufferer was brought by these destructive
attacks of God in His hostility....
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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...
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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...
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_MY FACE IS FOUL WITH WEEPING, AND ON MY EYELIDS IS THE SHADOW OF
DEATH;_
Foul, х_ CHAAMARMªRUW_ (H2560)] - rather, 'is very red;' i:e.,
violently inflamed, flushed and heated (Umbreit and Noyes)....
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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....
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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...
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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...
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FOUL. — Rather, perhaps, _red,_ as with wine....
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פָּנַ֣י _חֳ֭מַרְמְרוּ_† מִנִּי
־בֶ֑כִי וְ עַ֖ל עַפְעַפַּ֣י
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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_Flesh. Hebrew, "horn." Septuagint, "strength." (Haydock) --- I have
lost all my beauty and splendor, and have put on the garments of
penance. (Calmet)_...
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(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...
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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...
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MY FACE IS FOUL WITH WEEPING,.... On account of the loss of his
substance, and especially of his children; at the unkindness of his
friends, and over his own corruptions, which he felt working in him,...
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_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_,...
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JOB SHOWS THE PITIFULNESS OF HIS CASE AND MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE...
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My face is foul with weeping, burning, glowing red, almost inflamed
with the sharp pain caused by the tears, AND ON MY EYELIDS IS THE
SHADOW OF DEATH, he had wept himself almost to blindness or out of...
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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...
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His face is red from crying and his eyelids were dark in color, both
indicative of grief. Yet, he was innocent, he had not practiced any
violence and his prayers had been pure. He had served others an...
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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...
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i. e. A gross and terrible darkness. My sight is very dim and dark, as
is usual in case of sore diseases, or excessive grief and weeping,
LAMENTATIONS 2:11; and especially in the approach of death: co...
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Job 16:16 face H6440 flushed H2560 (H8777) weeping H1065 eyelids H6079
death H6757
face - Psalms
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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...
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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...
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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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 16:16 DEEP DARKNESS. Literally, “shadow of
death.” Job’s gaunt eyes are those of a dying man.
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Isaiah 52:14; Job 17:7; Jonah 2:1; Lamentations 1:16; Mark 14:34;...