Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Job 16:21
Verse Job 16:21. O that one might plead] Let me only have liberty to plead with God, as a man hath with his fellow.
Verse Job 16:21. O that one might plead] Let me only have liberty to plead with God, as a man hath with his fellow.
OH THAT ONE MIGHT PLEAD FOR A MAN - A more correct rendering of this would be, “Oh that it might be for a man to contend with God;” that is, in a judicial controversy. It is the expression of an earne...
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...
MAN. strong man. Hebrew. _geber._ App-14. MAN. son of man. Hebrew. _ben-'adam._ App-14....
That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man against his neighbour....
Job now names his Witness and states what he hopes for from Him....
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...
_O THAT ONE MIGHT PLEAD FOR A MAN WITH GOD, AS A MAN PLEADETH FOR HIS NEIGHBOUR!_ One - rather, He (God). 'O that, he would plead for a man (namely me) against God.' Job quaintly says, God must suppo...
16:21 arbitration (d-5) See ch. 9.33....
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....
'RV '0 that he (God) would maintain the right of man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbour.' Some render the second half of the sentence, 'as a mortal man does for his neighbour.'...
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...
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...
וְ יֹוכַ֣ח לְ גֶ֣בֶר עִם ־אֱלֹ֑והַּ וּֽ
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...
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man (x) [pleadeth] for his neighbour! (x) Thus by his great torments he is carried away, and breaks out into passions, and speaks unadvisedly, as thoug...
_Full. Hebrew, "scorners." Therefore I appeal to inanimate things; and, above all, to God, who cannot give a wrong judgment._...
(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...
OH THAT ONE MIGHT PLEAD FOR A MAN WITH GOD,.... That is, that one might be appointed and allowed to plead with God on his account; or that he be admitted to plead with God for himself; or however, tha...
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbour! Ver. 21. _O that one might plead for a man with God_] Heb. And he will plead for a man with God, and the Son of man f...
_O that one might plead for a man with God_ O that either I or some faithful advocate might be admitted to plead my cause, either with God, or rather with you before God's tribunal, God being witness...
Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, that God would decide before His own tribunal in favor of Job, that He would pronounce him not guilty, AS A MAN PLEADETH FOR HIS NEIGHBOR, that God would a...
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...
NEIGHBOR: Or, friend...
Again, here is Job's hope that he could present his case before God....
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...
Oh that either I or some faithful advocate might be admitted to plead any cause, either with God, or rather with you, before God's tribunal, God being witness and judge between us! But this verse is,...
Job 16:21 plead H3198 (H8686) man H1397 God H433 man H120 neighbor H1121 H7453 plead -...
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...
Ecclesiastes 6:10; Isaiah 45:9; Job 13:22; Job 13:3; Job 23:3;...