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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....
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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...
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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 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...
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FRIENDS. neighbours.
GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4....
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Job now names his Witness and states what he hopes for from Him....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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 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...
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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...
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מְלִיצַ֥י רֵעָ֑י אֶל ־אֱ֝לֹ֗והַ
דָּלְפָ֥ה עֵינִֽי׃...
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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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My friends (u) scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.
(u) Use painted words instead of true consolation....
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(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...
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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 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...
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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,...
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_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...
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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....
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JOB SHOWS THE PITIFULNESS OF HIS CASE AND MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE...
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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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SCORN ME:
_ Heb._ are my scorners...
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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)._...
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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...
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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...
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Job 16:20 friends H7453 scorn H3887 (H8688) eyes H5869 out H1811
(H8804) God H433
scorn me - Heb. are my scorners,...
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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’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...