Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Job 16:11
the ungodly. an evil one. Hebrew. 'aval. App-44.
the wicked. the lawless ones. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44.
the ungodly. an evil one. Hebrew. 'aval. App-44.
the wicked. the lawless ones. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44.
GOD HATH DELIVERED ME - Margin “shut me up.” The meaning is, that God had committed him to their hands as a prisoner or captive. They had power over him to do as they pleased. TO THE UNGODLY - Into t...
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...
_hath delivered_ DELIVERETH. Similarly, _turneth_or CASTETH me into. By the "ungodly" Job does not mean his friends, but the low rabble of men, such as are described in ch. 30....
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...
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...
_GOD HATH DELIVERED ME TO THE UNGODLY, AND TURNED ME OVER INTO THE HANDS OF THE WICKED._ Turned me over - literally, cast me headlong into, etc. х_ YIRTEENIY_ (H3399)]. THE UNGODLY - namely, his pr...
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...
THE UNGODLY and THE WICKED are the terms he retorts upon his friends, and they have certainly earned them. Now follows —...
יַסְגִּירֵ֣נִי אֵ֭ל אֶ֣ל עֲוִ֑יל וְ עַל ־יְדֵ
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...
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the (m) hands of the wicked. (m) They have led me where they would....
_Cheek. His friends seemed so enraged, as to be disposed to do so. (Calmet) --- These expressions were strikingly verified in Christ. (Menochius) --- The outrages may also be attributed to the devil;...
(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...
GOD HATH DELIVERED ME UP TO THE UNGODLY,.... The evil or wicked one, for it is in the singular number; and designs either Satan, into whose hands God had not only delivered his substance, but his pers...
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. Ver. 11. _God hath delivered me to the ungodly_] _i.e._ To the devil and his instruments, those Chaldean and Sab...
_God hath delivered me to the ungodly_ Either, 1st, To my friends, who act the part of the wicked in censuring and condemning the righteous, whom God approveth, and in pleading for a false and wicked...
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, exposing him to the attacks of the unrighteous, AND TURNED ME OVER INTO THE HANDS OF THE WICKED, casting him headlong into the power of knaves and rascals, these...
JOB SHOWS THE PITIFULNESS OF HIS CASE AND MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE...
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...
hath delivered me: _ Heb._ hath shut me up...
"GOD HANDS ME OVER TO RUFFIANS": Job was not wicked as claimed (Job 15:12-35), but those mistreating him and accusing him were. Job's friends like Eliphaz were older, but Job labels them as "ruffians...
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...
TO THE UNGODLY; either, 1. To my friends, who act the part of the wicked, in censuring and condemning the righteous, whom God approveth, and in pleading for a false and wicked cause. Or rather, 2. To...
Job 16:11 God H410 delivered H5462 (H8686) ungodly H5760 over H3399 (H8804) hands H3027 wicked H7563 deliv
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...
_God hath delivered me to the ungodly._ TRACING ALL TO GOD But Job gets some notion of the reality of things when he traces all to God, saving, “God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me ov...
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...
1 Samuel 24:18; 2 Corinthians 12:7; Job 1:13; Job 2:7; John 19:16;...
The wicked — And thus Christ was delivered into wicked hands, by the determinate counsel of God....