Job 16:1-22
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
The friends can do nothing but repeat their exasperating commonplaces.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL VAIN WORDS, etc.] i.e. 'will you never stop?'... [ Continue Reading ]
Job would have acted very differently (Job 4:3; Job 29), giving no mere lip-comfort. 6-17. Job enlarges on the wrath of God and the enmity of man. Neither speech nor silence brings him relief. 7-9. These vv. seem to refer to the hostility of God, Job 16:10 to that of man. In Job 16:7 Job varies be... [ Continue Reading ]
NO PLACE] RV 'no _resting_ place.' Let it be heard everywhere! 19-21. Rejected by men who count him guilty, Job is for a moment cheered with a bright vision of a 'witness in heaven,' one who will vouch for and testify to his innocence (Job 16:19). From Job 16:20 RV it is supposed that Job has an in... [ Continue Reading ]
ARCHERS] RM 'arrows.' REINS] i.e. kidneys.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH BREACH UPON BREACH] with one blow after another, as a battering-ram makes breaches in a wall.... [ Continue Reading ]
SACKCLOTH] the sign of mourning. HORN] the emblem of pride and strength.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT FOR _any_ INJUSTICE] RV 'although there is no violence.' Cp. the suffering Servant of Jehovah in Isaiah 53:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
Conscious of his innocence and yet of his impending death, which seems a token that he is condemned as guilty, Job invokes the earth not to conceal his blood, but to let it cry aloud for justice. The idea that the earth would not absorb innocent blood occurs also in Genesis 4:10; Ezekiel 24:7; Ezeki... [ Continue Reading ]
ALSO NOW] RV 'Even now.' MY RECORD] RV 'he that voucheth for me.'... [ Continue Reading ]
'RV '0 that he (God) would maintain the right of man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbour.' Some render the second half of the sentence, 'as a mortal man does for his neighbour.'... [ Continue Reading ]
Connected in subject with Job 17:1; Job 17:2. Some by a slight correction read in the first line, 'For the mourning-women shall come.'... [ Continue Reading ]