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HE BREAKETH ME - He crushes me.
WITH BREACH UPON BREACH - He renews and repeats the attack, and thus
completely overwhelms me. One blow follows another in such quick
succession, that he does not give...
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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 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...
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GIANT. mighty man. Hebrew. _gibbor._ App-14....
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HIS ARCHERS COMPASS ME, &C.— The metaphor is here taken from
huntsmen. First they surround the beast; then he is shot dead; his
entrails are next taken out; and then his body is broken up limb from
li...
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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...
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_HE BREAKETH ME WITH BREACH UPON BREACH, HE RUNNETH UPON ME LIKE A
GIANT._
The image is from storming a fortress by making breaches in the walls
(2 Kings 14:13).
A GIANT - a mighty warrior....
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16:14 man. (a-15) _ Gibbor_ . see ch. 3.3....
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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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WITH BREACH UPON BREACH] with one blow after another, as a
battering-ram makes breaches in a wall....
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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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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...
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יִפְרְצֵ֣נִי פֶ֭רֶץ עַל ־פְּנֵי
־פָ֑רֶץ יָרֻ֖ץ...
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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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_Lances. Hebrew, "archers." Septuagint, "they have encompassed me,
throwing lances into my veins, or loins, not sparing," &c. (Haydock)
--- Bowels. Hebrew and Septuagint, "gall," being afflicted with...
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(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...
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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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HE BREAKETH ME WITH BREACH UPON BREACH,.... Upon his substance, his
family, and the health of his body, which came thick and fast, one
after another; referring to the report of those things brought by...
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He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a
giant.
Ver. 14. _He breaketh me with breach upon breach_] So that I have
hardly any breathing while, _Quis tot et tantis ferendis sim...
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_His archers compass me round about_ His plagues or judgments,
elsewhere compared to arrows, and here to archers, surround me on all
sides, and assault me from every quarter. Whoever are our enemies,...
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He breaketh me with breach upon breach, like a wall which is being
battered down by heavy projectiles; HE RUNNETH UPON ME LIKE A GIANT,
like a mighty warrior striking down everything in his path....
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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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God here is likened to an army that has breached the defenses of. city
and is now overrunning it. Job is wrong in attributing such hostility
to God, yet he could see no other explanation. "Job thus am...
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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...
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My calamities have no interruption, but one immediately succeeds
another, as it did JOB 1. LIKE A GIANT, who falls upon his enemy with
all his might, that he may overthrow and kill him....
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Job 16:14 breaks H6555 (H8799) wound H6556 upon H6440 wound H6556 runs
H7323 (H8799) warrior H1368
break
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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—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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 16:12 Like a city invaded during war, Job feels that
he has endured BREACH UPON BREACH from God.
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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...
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Judges 15:8; Lamentations 3:3; Psalms 42:7...