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GOD HATH DELIVERED ME - Margin “shut me up.” The meaning is, that
God had committed him to their hands as a prisoner or captive. They
had power over him to do as they pleased.
TO THE UNGODLY - Into t...
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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 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...
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_hath delivered_ DELIVERETH. Similarly, _turneth_or CASTETH me into.
By the "ungodly" Job does not mean his friends, but the low rabble of
men, such as are described in ch. 30....
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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...
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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...
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_GOD HATH DELIVERED ME TO THE UNGODLY, AND TURNED ME OVER INTO THE
HANDS OF THE WICKED._
Turned me over - literally, cast me headlong into, etc. х_ YIRTEENIY_
(H3399)].
THE UNGODLY - namely, his pr...
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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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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...
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THE UNGODLY and THE WICKED are the terms he retorts upon his friends,
and they have certainly earned them. Now follows —...
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יַסְגִּירֵ֣נִי אֵ֭ל אֶ֣ל עֲוִ֑יל וְ
עַל ־יְדֵ
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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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God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the (m)
hands of the wicked.
(m) They have led me where they would....
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_Cheek. His friends seemed so enraged, as to be disposed to do so.
(Calmet) --- These expressions were strikingly verified in Christ.
(Menochius) --- The outrages may also be attributed to the devil;...
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(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...
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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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GOD HATH DELIVERED ME UP TO THE UNGODLY,.... The evil or wicked one,
for it is in the singular number; and designs either Satan, into whose
hands God had not only delivered his substance, but his pers...
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God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the
hands of the wicked.
Ver. 11. _God hath delivered me to the ungodly_] _i.e._ To the devil
and his instruments, those Chaldean and Sab...
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_God hath delivered me to the ungodly_ Either, 1st, To my friends, who
act the part of the wicked in censuring and condemning the righteous,
whom God approveth, and in pleading for a false and wicked...
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God hath delivered me to the ungodly, exposing him to the attacks of
the unrighteous, AND TURNED ME OVER INTO THE HANDS OF THE WICKED,
casting him headlong into the power of knaves and rascals, these...
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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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hath delivered me:
_ Heb._ hath shut me up...
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"GOD HANDS ME OVER TO RUFFIANS": Job was not wicked as claimed (Job
15:12-35), but those mistreating him and accusing him were. Job's
friends like Eliphaz were older, but Job labels them as "ruffians...
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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...
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TO THE UNGODLY; either,
1. To my friends, who act the part of the wicked, in censuring and
condemning the righteous, whom God approveth, and in pleading for a
false and wicked cause. Or rather,
2. To...
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Job 16:11 God H410 delivered H5462 (H8686) ungodly H5760 over H3399
(H8804) hands H3027 wicked H7563
deliv
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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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_God hath delivered me to the ungodly._
TRACING ALL TO GOD
But Job gets some notion of the reality of things when he traces all
to God, saving, “God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me
ov...
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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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1 Samuel 24:18; 2 Corinthians 12:7; Job 1:13; Job 2:7; John 19:16;...
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The wicked — And thus Christ was delivered into wicked hands, by the
determinate counsel of God....