It is doubtful whether Job means by "a few years" his whole life, or the years that are still to run of it. The last sense is fairest to the language. His disease though mortal was not immediately fatal; but at least his days were consumed "without hope."
Verse Job 16:22. _WHEN A FEW YEARS ARE COME_] I prefer Mr. _Good's_ version: - "But the years numbered to me are come. And I must go the way whence I shall not return." Job could not, in his prese...
WHEN A FEW YEARS ARE COME - Margin “years of number;” that is, numbered years, or a few years. The same idea is expressed in Job 7:21; see the notes at that place. The idea is, that he must soon die....
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 16:22 TO JOB 17:16. Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must now die. JOB 17:2 is obscure; the general sense seems to be...
THE WAY, &C. Figure of speech _Euphemism_ (App-6), for death....
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...
_WHEN A FEW YEARS ARE COME, THEN I SHALL GO THE WAY WHENCE I SHALL NOT RETURN._ Few - literally, 'years of number;' i:e., few, opposed to numberless (Genesis 34:30), "I being few in number"). Remark...
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....
Connected in subject with Job 17:1; Job 17:2. Some by a slight correction read in the first line, 'For the mourning-women shall come.'...
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...
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...
WHEN A FEW YEARS ARE COME. — Literally, _years of number,_ which means either “years than can be easily numbered,” as _men of number_ (Genesis 34:20) is used to express _few men;_ or “years that are n...
כִּֽי ־שְׁנֹ֣ות מִסְפָּ֣ר יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ וְ אֹ֖רַח...
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...
_Judged. Hebrew, "might plead." (Haydock) --- Earthly judges may be compelled to pronounce sentence publicly. Job is afraid lest the justice of his cause should remain undecided, till death overtook h...
REFLECTIONS READER! while we behold Job bowed down under the very heavy load of sorrow, and hear the complaints issuing from him, as related in this chapter; let us not be too hasty, in charging the p...
(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...
_OUR LAST JOURNEY_ ‘When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.’ Job 16:22 I. LET US REALISE OUR INEVITABLE JOURNEY. II. LET US CONTEMPLATE ITS NEARNESS. III....
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...
WHEN A FEW YEARS ARE COME,.... As the years of man's life are but few at most, and Job's years, which were yet to come, still fewer in his apprehension; or "years of number" m, that are numbered by Go...
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return. Ver. 22. _When a few years are come, &c._] Heb. Years of number; that is, years that may easily be counted and cast up....
_When a few years are come_ The number of years which is determined and appointed to me; _then I shall go the way whence I shall not return_ Namely, to the state and place of the dead, whence men cann...
JOB SHOWS THE PITIFULNESS OF HIS CASE AND MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE...
When a few years are come, the years which are numbered very carefully, the last ones which remain before death, THEN I SHALL GO THE WAY WHENCE I SHALL NOT RETURN, for Job knew that the course of the...
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...
A FEW YEARS: _ Heb._ years of number...
And he needed this opportunity now for time was running out. "His few years would soon come to an end, and he could not possibly return (to appear in court) after death" _(Zuck p. 78)._...
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...
i.e. To the state and place of the dead, whence men do not and cannot return to this life. The meaning is, My death hastens, and therefore I earnestly desire that the cause depending before God betwee...
Job 16:22 few H4557 years H8141 finished H857 (H8799) go H1980 (H8799) way H734 return H7725 ...
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...
_When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return._ THE SHORTNESS OF HUMAN LIFE Doctrine--The coming in of a few new years will set us out of this world, never to return...
_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...
Ecclesiastes 12:5; Job 14:10; Job 14:14; Job 14:5; Job 7:10;...
Go — To the state and place of the dead, whence men cannot return to this life. The meaning is, my death hastens, and therefore I earnestly desire that the cause depending, between me and my friends,...