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CHAPTER XVI
_Job replies to Eliphaz, and through him to all his friends,_
_who, instead of comforting him, had added to his misfortunes;_
_and shows that, had they been in his circumstances, he wou...
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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 has had enough of his tormenting comforters (Job 16:2 f.). He
could, if the positions were reversed, well enough offer them such
mere verbal consolation (the stress in Job 16:5 is on mouth and lip...
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ANSWERED. replied. See note on Job 4:1....
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Job 16:1-5. Job expresses his weariness of the monotony of his
friends'speeches, and rejects their consolation, which is only that of
the lip...
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_JOB EXPOSTULATES WITH HIS FRIENDS ON THEIR UNKIND TREATMENT; AND
DECLARES, THAT IF THEY WERE IN THE LIKE DISTRESS HE WOULD BEHAVE TO
THEM IN A DIFFERENT MANNER. HE SETS FORTH THE GREATNESS OF HIS
SUF...
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B. JOB'S TRIALVINDICATION OR? (Job 16:1, Job 17:16).
1. The words of his friends are aimless and unprofitable. (Job 16:1-5)
TEXT 16:1-5
16 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,
2 I have heard many such thing...
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_THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,_
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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, 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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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...
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XVI.
(1) THEN JOB ANSWERED. — Job, in replying, ceases to continue the
argument, which he finds useless; but, after complaining of the way
his friends have conducted it, and contrasting the way in whi...
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וַ יַּ֥עַן אִיֹּ֗וב וַ יֹּאמַֽר׃...
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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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CONTENTS
Job in this chapter is again entering upon his defense. He complains
of the unkindness of his friends; pleads for more tenderness from
them; shows the pitifulness of his case: and again, as...
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(1) В¶ Then Job answered and said, (2) I have heard many such
things: miserable comforters are ye all.
The retort Job makes on Eliphaz, is to the same amount as before. He
had already heard much reaso...
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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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THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID. As soon as Eliphaz had done speaking, Job
stood up, and made the following reply....
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Then Job answered and said,
Ver. 1. _Then Job answered and said_] Although he had little or
nothing to answer unto but what he had answered before, yet that he
might not say nothing, he replieth to E...
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_Then Job answered and said_ “Job, above measure grieved that his
friends should treat him in this cruel manner, expostulates very
tenderly with them on the subject. He tells them he should, in the
li...
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Then Job answered and said, in repudiating also this speech and its
insinuations,...
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JOB COMPLAINS OF THE UNMERCIFUL ATTITUDE OF HIS FRIENDS...
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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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1-5 Eliphaz had represented Job's discourses as unprofitable, and
nothing to the purpose; Job here gives his the same character. Those
who pass censures, must expect to have them retorted; it is easy...
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JOB CHAPTER 16 Job's answer: his friends increase his misery, JOB
16:1. His insulting enemies, JOB 16:9. God's power against him, JOB
16:12. His innocence should cry to heaven, where it was known: he...
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Job 16:1 Job H347 answered H6030 (H8799) said H559 (H8799)...
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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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_Miserable comforters are ye all._
MISERABLE COMFORTERS
They are but sorry comforters who, being confounded with the sight of
the afflicted’s trouble, do grate upon their (real or supposed)
guilt, w...
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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...
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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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Job 16:1...