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 amassed. forceful collocation of word-pictures to portray the intensity of his emotional writhing and the helplessness of his pitiable condition" (Zuck p. 77).
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...
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...
GIANT. mighty man. Hebrew. _gibbor._ App-14....
Another figure, that of an edifice or fort overthrown by repeated breaches, and stormed by warriors. _Giant_is a mighty man, or warrior, Isaiah 42:13....
More particular description of the hostile attack of God, its unexpectedness and destructiveness....
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...
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...
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 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....
16:14 man. (a-15) _ Gibbor_ . see ch. 3.3....
WITH BREACH UPON BREACH] with one blow after another, as a battering-ram makes breaches in a wall....
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....
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...
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...
יִפְרְצֵ֣נִי פֶ֭רֶץ עַל ־פְּנֵי ־פָ֑רֶץ יָרֻ֖ץ...
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...
_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...
(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 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...
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...
_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,...
JOB SHOWS THE PITIFULNESS OF HIS CASE AND MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE...
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....
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...
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...
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....
Job 16:14 breaks H6555 (H8799) wound H6556 upon H6440 wound H6556 runs H7323 (H8799) warrior H1368 break
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—NOTE ON JOB 16:12 Like a city invaded during war, Job feels that he has endured BREACH UPON BREACH from God. ⇐...
_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...
Judges 15:8; Lamentations 3:3; Psalms 42:7...