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Job 16:20-21

Job now names his Witness and states what he hopes for from Him.

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See also Job 16:20-21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FRIENDS. neighbours. GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מְלִיצַ֥י רֵעָ֑י אֶל ־אֱ֝לֹ֗והַ דָּלְפָ֥ה עֵינִֽי׃...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    My friends (u) scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God. (u) Use painted words instead of true consolation....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB SHOWS THE PITIFULNESS OF HIS CASE AND MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SCORN ME: _ Heb._ are my scorners...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    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)._...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 16:20 friends H7453 scorn H3887 (H8688) eyes H5869 out H1811 (H8804) God H433 scorn me - Heb. are my scorners,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Hebrews 5:7; Hosea 12:4; Hosea 12:5; Job 12:4; Job 12:5;...

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