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Verse Job 16:21. _O THAT ONE MIGHT PLEAD_] Let me only have liberty to
plead with God, as a man hath with his fellow....
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OH THAT ONE MIGHT PLEAD FOR A MAN - A more correct rendering of this
would be, “Oh that it might be for a man to contend with God;”
that is, in a judicial controversy. It is the expression of an earne...
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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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MAN. strong man. Hebrew. _geber._ App-14.
MAN. son of man. Hebrew. _ben-'adam._ App-14....
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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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_O THAT ONE MIGHT PLEAD FOR A MAN WITH GOD, AS A MAN PLEADETH FOR HIS
NEIGHBOUR!_
One - rather, He (God). 'O that, he would plead for a man (namely me)
against God.' Job quaintly says, God must suppo...
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16:21 arbitration (d-5) See ch. 9.33....
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'RV '0 that he (God) would maintain the right of man with God, and of
a son of man with his neighbour.' Some render the second half of the
sentence, 'as a mortal man does for his neighbour.'...
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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’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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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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וְ יֹוכַ֣ח לְ גֶ֣בֶר עִם ־אֱלֹ֑והַּ
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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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O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man (x) [pleadeth] for
his neighbour!
(x) Thus by his great torments he is carried away, and breaks out into
passions, and speaks unadvisedly, as thoug...
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_Full. Hebrew, "scorners." Therefore I appeal to inanimate things;
and, above all, to God, who cannot give a wrong judgment._...
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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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OH THAT ONE MIGHT PLEAD FOR A MAN WITH GOD,.... That is, that one
might be appointed and allowed to plead with God on his account; or
that he be admitted to plead with God for himself; or however, tha...
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O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his
neighbour!
Ver. 21. _O that one might plead for a man with God_] Heb. And he
will plead for a man with God, and the Son of man f...
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_O that one might plead for a man with God_ O that either I or some
faithful advocate might be admitted to plead my cause, either with
God, or rather with you before God's tribunal, God being witness...
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Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, that God would decide
before His own tribunal in favor of Job, that He would pronounce him
not guilty, AS A MAN PLEADETH FOR HIS NEIGHBOR, that God would a...
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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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NEIGHBOR:
Or, friend...
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Again, here is Job's hope that he could present his case before God....
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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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Oh that either I or some faithful advocate might be admitted to plead
any cause, either with God, or rather with you, before God's tribunal,
God being witness and judge between us! But this verse is,...
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Job 16:21 plead H3198 (H8686) man H1397 God H433 man H120 neighbor
H1121 H7453
plead -...
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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...
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Ecclesiastes 6:10; Isaiah 45:9; Job 13:22; Job 13:3; Job 23:3;...