Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 16:9
Eyes — Looks upon me with a fierce, and sparkling eye, as enraged persons use to do.
Eyes — Looks upon me with a fierce, and sparkling eye, as enraged persons use to do.
Verse Job 16:9. _HE TEARETH_ ME _IN HIS WRATH_] Who the person is that is spoken of in this verse, and onward to the end of the _fourteenth_, has been a question on which commentators have greatly di...
HE TEARETH ME IN HIS WRATH - The language here is all taken from the ferocity of wild beasts; and the idea is, that his enemy had come upon him as a lion seizes upon its prey. Rosenmuller, Reiske, 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 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...
Picture of God's hostility to him. The figure is that of a beast of prey. _who hateth me_ lit. _and hateth me_, or, and is hostile to me, i. e. _assaileth me_. The picture of the lion-like assailant,...
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...
HE TEARETH ME IN HIS WRATH, &C.— _His fury rend-eth me, and he teareth me to pieces._ Heath; who remarks, that the metaphor is taken from a beast of prey, who rends and tears his booty in pieces; and...
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...
_HE TEARETH ME IN HIS WRATH, WHO HATETH ME: HE GNASHETH UPON ME WITH HIS TEETH; MINE ENEMY SHARPENETH HIS EYES UPON ME._ Image from a wild beast. So God is represented (Job 10:16). WHO HATETH ME - r...
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...
HE TEARETH ME IN HIS WRATH. — Terrible as the language is that Job has used against God, he seems here almost to exceed it, for he calls Him his adversary. It is hardly possible not to understand the...
אַפֹּ֤ו טָרַ֨ף ׀ וַֽ יִּשְׂטְמֵ֗נִי חָרַ֣ק עָלַ֣י...
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...
(k) He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. (k) That is, God by his wrath: and in this diversity of words and high sty...
Against me, in your opinion, as if I were guilty of lies. Hebrew, "my leanness bears witness, my falsehood has risen up against me and answered me to my face;" which may be understood in the same sens...
(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...
HE TEARETH [ME] IN HIS WRATH, WHO HATETH ME,.... By whom is meant not Satan, as Jarchi, though he is an enemy to, and an hater of mankind, especially of good men; nor Eliphaz, as others, who had falle...
He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. Ver. 9. _He teareth me in his wrath, &c._] Who did all this to Job? The devil,...
_He teareth me in his wrath_ Hebrew, אפו שׂר, _appo tarap, His wrath teareth me in pieces_, properly, as a lion or other savage beast tears his prey, of which the word _tarap_ is peculiarly used; _who...
He teareth me in His wrath, who hateth me, God's anger had apparently made war upon him, torn him, was pursuing him hard; HE GNASHETH UPON ME WITH HIS TEETH, as though He were truly enraged against Jo...
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...
Job depicts God as. savage beast, "tearing him in anger, snarling at him, and glaring at him" _(Zuck p. 77)._...
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...
HE TEARETH ME IN HIS WRATH, Heb. _his wrath teareth me in pieces_, as a lion doth his prey. WHO HATETH ME, Heb. and _he hateth me_, i.e. he pursueth me with a deadly hatred and rage. Or, _and he is be...
Job 16:9 tears H2963 (H8804) wrath H639 hates H7852 (H8799) gnashes H2786 (H8804) teeth H8127 adversary...
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—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...
Hosea 5:14; Job 10:16; Job 10:17; Job 13:24; Job 13:27;...