_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 SUFFERINGS, BUT STILL MAINTAINS HIS INTEGRITY._ _Before Christ 1645._ _JOB 16:1. THEN JOB ANSWERED AN... [ Continue Reading ]
I ALSO COULD SPEAK, &C.— _I also could speak as well as you: if your soul were in my soul's stead, would I accumulate sentences against you? would I shake my head at you?_ Heath. The rendering of this verse interrogatively gives it a very pathetic turn.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I WOULD STRENGTHEN YOU WITH MY MOUTH— _I would rather encourage you with my mouth, and the vehemency of my eloquence should be kept within bounds._ This is very applicable to the treatment that he had received from his friends, and a proper reproof of it. Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NOW HE HATH MADE ME WEARY— _For my trouble hath now weakened all my frame, and brought wrinkles over me,_ Job 16:8. _He is present as a witness, and ariseth against me, who telleth lies concerning me, he openly contradicts me to my face._ Houbigant. Heath renders the verses, _Only now it reducet... [ Continue Reading ]
HE TEARETH ME IN HIS WRATH, &C.— _His fury rend-eth me, and he teareth me to pieces._ Heath; who remarks, that the metaphor is taken from a beast of prey, who rends and tears his booty in pieces; and the same metaphor is carried on through the whole. See Psalms 35:16; Psalms 37:12.Lamentations 2:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY HAVE GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER AGAINST ME— _They are ready to burst with fury against me._ Heath. _They have unanimously satiated their wrath upon me._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 limb. Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE SEWED SACKCLOTH— The meaning of this verse is, _I have sewn sackcloth_ (in token of grief) _over my torn skin, and have defiled my head, my horn,_ or _honour, with ashes._ See Schultens and Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT FOR ANY INJUSTICE, &C.— _Although there is not iniquity in my hands; although my prayers are pure before God._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
O EARTH, COVER NOT THOU MY BLOOD, &C.— _O earth! cover not thou my blood, lest there be no place for my cry!_ Job 16:19. _Yea, even now my witness is in heaven; and He who is conscious of my actions is on high:_ Job 16:20. _My thought is my interpreter with God; mine eye is dropping before him:_ Job... [ Continue Reading ]