Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Job 16:20
Verse Job 16:20. My friends scorn me] They deride and insult me, but my eye is towards God; I look to him to vindicate my cause.
Verse Job 16:20. My friends scorn me] They deride and insult me, but my eye is towards God; I look to him to vindicate my cause.
MY FRIENDS SCORN ME - Margin “are my scorners.” That is, his friends had him in derision and mocked him, and he could only appeal with tears to God. MINE EYE POURETH OUT TEARS UNTO GOD - Despised and...
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 cries to the avenger of blood to avenge his innocence. He is a martyr, and feels that his blood must cry for vengeance (Genesis 4:10 *, Revelation 6:10). Job arrives at the astounding thought that...
FRIENDS. neighbours. GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4....
Job now names his Witness and states what he hopes for from Him....
My friends scorn me: Mine eye poureth out tears unto God, _scorn me_ lit. _are my scorners_, or, mockers instead of being my witnesses, cf. Job 12:4; Job 16:4-5. Because his friends mock him and no s...
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...
3. He must be vindicated by a heavenly witness. (Job 16:18-22) TEXT 16:18-22 18 O EARTH, COVER NOT THOU MY BLOOD, And let my cry have no _resting-place._ 19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heav...
_MY FRIENDS SCORN ME: BUT MINE EYE POURETH OUT TEARS UNTO GOD._ Hebrew, more forcibly, 'my mockers-my friends!' A heart-cutting paradox! (Umbreit.) God alone remains to whom he can look for attestati...
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...
Job’s words in verses 7–18 seemed hopeless. But then Job spoke about his ‘friend’. Job did not say who this friend was. But Job did not mean Eliphaz, Bildad or Zophar. This friend was in heaven. He wa...
MY FRIENDS SCORN ME. — Or, as an apostrophe, “Ye my scorners who profess and ought to be my friends: mine eye poureth out tears unto God that He would maintain the right of man with God, and of the so...
מְלִיצַ֥י רֵעָ֑י אֶל ־אֱ֝לֹ֗והַ דָּלְפָ֥ה עֵינִֽי׃...
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...
My friends (u) scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God. (u) Use painted words instead of true consolation....
(19) Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. (20) My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. (21) O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pl...
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...
MY FRIENDS SCORN ME,.... Not that they scoffed at his afflictions and calamities, and at his diseases and disorders, that would have been very brutish and inhuman, but at his words, the arguments and...
My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God. Ver. 20. _My friends scorn me_] Or, play the rhetoricians against me. David likewise complaineth of his rhetorical mockers at feasts,...
_Behold, my witness is in heaven_ Besides the witness of men, and of my own conscience, God is witness of my integrity. The witness of men, and even that in our own bosoms for us, will stand us in lit...
JOB SHOWS THE PITIFULNESS OF HIS CASE AND MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE...
My friends scorn me, literally, "although mockers of me my friends"; BUT MINE EYE POURETH OUT TEARS UNTO GOD, directing his tearful entreaty to the Lord for justice and help....
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...
SCORN ME: _ Heb._ are my scorners...
Yet Job's earthly friends had not spoken on his behalf, rather they had accused him, "so as. turn from them,. turn to God with tears streaming down my face" _(Strauss p. 161)._...
17-22 Job's condition was very deplorable; but he had the testimony of his conscience for him, that he never allowed himself in any gross sin. No one was ever more ready to acknowledge sins of infirm...
MY FRIENDS, who should defend me from the scorns and injuries of others, SCORN ME; so this word is used PSALMS 119:51 PROVERBS 3:34, PROVERBS 19:28. I pour forth my prayers and tears to God, that he w...
Job 16:20 friends H7453 scorn H3887 (H8688) eyes H5869 out H1811 (H8804) God H433 scorn me - Heb. are my scorners,...
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’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...
Hebrews 5:7; Hosea 12:4; Hosea 12:5; Job 12:4; Job 12:5;...