But speaking does not help. "Whether he spoke up or not, his pain lingered on" (Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 738). Not only was Job not helped by his three comforters, he could not even help himself. Nothing he could say or think seemed to help him come to terms with his suffering.
Verse Job 16:6. _THOUGH I SPEAK_] But it will be of no avail thus to speak; for reprehensions of _your_ conduct will not serve to mitigate _my_ sufferings....
THOUGH I SPEAK, MY GRIEF IS NOT ASSUAGED - “But for me, it makes now no difference whether I speak or am silent. My sufferings continue. If I attempt to vindicate myself before people, I am reproached...
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...
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...
_my grief_ i. e. _my pain_; see on ch. Job 2:13. _what am I eased_ lit. as margin, _what_(of my pain or trouble) _goeth from me?_...
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...
_THOUGH I SPEAK, MY GRIEF IS NOT ASSWAGED: AND THOUGH I FORBEAR, WHAT AM I EASED?_ Eased - Literally, What portion of my sufferings goes from me?-not the smallest portion....
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....
Job’s friends wanted to help him. They tried to teach him about God. They tried to show Job his errors. And they wanted to encourage him. But their words did not help Job. They never understood the r...
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...
THOUGH I SPEAK... — “I cannot but reply, though to reply gives me no relief.”...
אִֽם ־אֲ֭דַבְּרָה לֹא ־יֵחָשֵׂ֣ךְ כְּאֵבִ֑י וְ֝...
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...
Though I speak, my grief is (f) not asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased? (f) If you would say, "Why do you not then comfort yourself?" he answers that the judgments of God are more heav...
(3) Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? (4) I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine...
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...
THOUGH I SPEAK, MY GRIEF IS NOT ASSUAGED,.... Though he spoke to God in prayer, and entreated for some abatement of his sorrows, he got no relief; and though he spoke to himself in soliloquies, his so...
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased? Ver. 6. _Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged_] Heb. If I speak; _sc._ to bewail my misery, or to maintain mine...
_Though I speak_ To God by prayer, or to you in the way of discourse; _my grief is not assuaged_ I find no relief or comfort. Job, having reproved his friends for their unkind behaviour toward him, an...
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged, if he gives vent to his misery, it does him no good, namely, with such poor comforters at hand; AND THOUGH I FORBEAR, WHAT AM I EASED? If he desists from spea...
JOB COMPLAINS OF THE UNMERCIFUL ATTITUDE OF HIS FRIENDS...
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...
WHAT AM I EASED? _HEB._WHAT GOETH FROM ME?...
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...
THOUGH I SPEAK to God by prayer, or to you in way of discourse, I find no relief. Job having reproved his friends for their unkind carriage towards him, and aggravated it by his resolutions to have de...
Job 16:6 speak H1696 (H8762) grief H3511 relieved H2820 (H8735) silent H2308 (H8799) eased H1980 ...
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’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...
Job 10:1; Psalms 77:1; Psalms 88:15...