Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 16:2
Such things — These things are but vulgar and trivial. And so are all creatures, to a soul under deep conviction of sin, or the arrest of death.
Such things — These things are but vulgar and trivial. And so are all creatures, to a soul under deep conviction of sin, or the arrest of death.
Verse Job 16:2. _I HAVE HEARD MANY SUCH THINGS_] These sayings of the ancients are not strange to me; but they do not apply to my case: ye see me in affliction; ye should endeavour to console me. This...
MANY SUCH THINGS - That is, either things fitted to provoke and irritate, or sentiments that are common-place. There was nothing new in what they said, and nothing to the purpose. MISERABLE COMFORTERS...
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 has had enough of his tormenting comforters (Job 16:2 f.). He could, if the positions were reversed, well enough offer them such mere verbal consolation (the stress in Job 16:5 is on mouth and lip...
MISERABLE. wearisome....
_many such things_ Job cannot help expressing his impatience of the sameness and the amount of his friends" talk, and its uselessness or even worse. _miserable comforters_ The margin is, _troublesome...
Job 16:1-5. Job expresses his weariness of the monotony of his friends'speeches, and rejects their consolation, which is only that of the lip...
B. JOB'S TRIALVINDICATION OR? (Job 16:1, Job 17:16). 1. The words of his friends are aimless and unprofitable. (Job 16:1-5) TEXT 16:1-5 16 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, 2 I have heard many such thing...
_I HAVE HEARD MANY SUCH THINGS: MISERABLE COMFORTERS ARE YE ALL._ Miserable - burdensome; i:e., annoying. (cf. Job 13:4)...
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....
The friends can do nothing but repeat their exasperating commonplaces....
Job’s friends wanted to help him. They tried to teach him about God. They tried to show Job his errors. And they wanted to encourage him. But their words did not help Job. They never understood the r...
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...
I HAVE HEARD MANY SUCH THINGS. — Trite rather than true, or at least the whole truth. “Common is the common-place, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.”...
שָׁמַ֣עְתִּי כְ אֵ֣לֶּה רַבֹּ֑ות מְנַחֲמֵ֖י עָמָ֣ל...
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...
_Comforters. "Job's friends or comforters," are become proverbial, to denote people who do the contrary to what they seem to promise. (Haydock) --- Never did men sustain worse the character of comfort...
(1) В¶ Then Job answered and said, (2) I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. The retort Job makes on Eliphaz, is to the same amount as before. He had already heard much reaso...
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...
I HAVE HEARD MANY SUCH THINGS,.... As those Eliphaz has been discoursing of, concerning the punishment of wicked men; many instances of this kind had been reported to him from his preceptors, and from...
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all. Ver. 2. _I have heard many such things_] Heard them over and over, till I am even sated and nauseated, _Vexatus toties rauci; _ _q.d....
_I have heard many such things_ Both from you and divers others; and though you please yourselves with them, as if you had some great and important discoveries, they are but vulgar and trivial things....
I have heard many such things, he had now heard arguments of this kind in a greater amount than he cared for. MISERABLE COMFORTERS, literally, "consolers of distress," ARE YE ALL, men whose words, ins...
JOB COMPLAINS OF THE UNMERCIFUL ATTITUDE OF HIS FRIENDS...
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...
MISERABLE: Or, troublesome...
"I HAVE HEARD MANY SUCH THINGS": "He begins with statement of weariness. He had heard all of this unprofitable talk before" _(Strauss p. 155)._ "SORRY COMFORTERS ARE YOU ALL": Instead of helping him a...
1-5 Eliphaz had represented Job's discourses as unprofitable, and nothing to the purpose; Job here gives his the same character. Those who pass censures, must expect to have them retorted; it is easy...
I HAVE HEARD MANY SUCH THINGS; both from you, who do so odiously repeat the same things, and from divers others; for these things, though you pride and please yourselves in them, as if you had made so...
Job 16:2 heard H8085 (H8804) things H7227 Miserable H5999 comforters H5162 (H8764) heard - Job 6:6,...
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...
_Miserable comforters are ye all._ MISERABLE COMFORTERS They are but sorry comforters who, being confounded with the sight of the afflicted’s trouble, do grate upon their (real or supposed) guilt, w...
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...
James 1:19; Job 11:2; Job 11:3; Job 13:4; Job 13:5;...