Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 16:13
His archers — Whoever are our enemies, we must look on them as God's archers, and see him directing the arrow.
His archers — Whoever are our enemies, we must look on them as God's archers, and see him directing the arrow.
Verse Job 16:13. _HIS ARCHERS COMPASS ME_] רביו _rabbaiv_ "his great ones." The _Vulgate_ and _Septuagint_ translate this _his spears_; the _Syriac, Arabic_, and _Chaldee, his arrows_. On this and th...
HIS ARCHERS - He does not come alone to shoot at me; he has employed a company of bowmen, who also direct “their” arrows against me. The word used here רב _rab_ means properly “much, large,” great; an...
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...
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...
More particular description of the hostile attack of God, its unexpectedness and destructiveness....
The second figure Job has been set up by God as a mark for His arrows. _his archers_ Rather, HIS ARROWS, cf. ch. Job 6:4. These arrows fly about him and cleave his vital parts and pour out his life t...
HIS ARCHERS COMPASS ME, &C.— The metaphor is here taken from huntsmen. First they surround the beast; then he is shot dead; his entrails are next taken out; and then his body is broken up limb from li...
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...
_HIS ARCHERS COMPASS ME ROUND ABOUT, HE CLEAVETH MY REINS ASUNDER, AND DOTH NOT SPARE; HE POURETH OUT MY GALL UPON THE GROUND._ His archers. The image of last verse is continued. God, in making me Hi...
16:13 arrows (f-2) Or 'archers.'...
ARCHERS] RM 'arrows.' REINS] i.e. kidneys....
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....
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...
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...
יָ֘סֹ֤בּוּ עָלַ֨י ׀ רַבָּ֗יו יְפַלַּ֣ח כִּ֭לְיֹותַי וְ...
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...
His (n) archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall (o) upon the ground. (n) His manifold afflictions. (o) I am wounded to the heart....
(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...
HIS ARCHERS COMPASS ME ROUND ABOUT,.... Satan and his principalities and powers casting their fiery darts at him; or rather, his friends shooting their arrows, even bitter words, reproaches, and calum...
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. Ver. 13. _His archers compass me round about_] _i.e._ His instruments of...
_His archers compass me round about_ His plagues or judgments, elsewhere compared to arrows, and here to archers, surround me on all sides, and assault me from every quarter. Whoever are our enemies,...
JOB SHOWS THE PITIFULNESS OF HIS CASE AND MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE...
His archers compass me round about, rather, whirred about me His arrows or darts; HE CLEAVETH MY REINS ASUNDER AND DOTH NOT SPARE, cutting open vital organs of his body; HE POURETH OUT MY GALL UPON TH...
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...
This is the description of what would be considered. death-blow on the field of battle....
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...
HIS ARCHERS, i.e. his plagues or judgments, elsewhere compared to arrows, and here to archers. HE CLEAVETH MY REINS ASUNDER with his arrows, i.e. he wounds me inwardly, and mortally, and incurably; wh...
Job 16:13 archers H7228 surround H5437 (H8799) pierces H6398 (H8762) heart H3629 pity H2550 (H8799) out...
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 16:12 Like a city invaded during war, Job feels that he has endured BREACH UPON BREACH from God. ⇐...
_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...
2 Peter 2:5; Deuteronomy 29:20; Ezekiel 5:11; Genesis 49:23; Job 19:27