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; Ezekiel 24:8.
Verse Job 16:18. _O EARTH, COVER NOT THOU MY BLOOD_] This is evidently an allusion to the murder of Abel, and the verse has been understood in _two_ different ways: 1. Job here calls for justice agai...
O EARTH - Passionate appeals to the earth are not uncommon in the Scriptures; see the notes at Isaiah 1:2. Such appeals indicate deep emotion, and are among the most animated forms of personification....
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 cries to the avenger of blood to avenge his innocence. He is a martyr, and feels that his blood must cry for vengeance (Genesis 4:10 *, Revelation 6:10). Job arrives at the astounding thought that...
O. Figure of speech _Ecphonesis._ App-6. COVER NOT. MY BLOOD. The reference is to the practice which remains to this day, based on Numbers 35:33.Leviticus 17:13. Job's desire is that the evidence of...
God's destructive enmity will bring Job to death, though there is no wrong in his hands and his prayer is pure (Job 16:17). This feeling makes him appeal to the earth not to cover his innocent blood....
Job 16:18 to Job 17:9. Job, dying a martyr's death, beseeches God that He would uphold his right with God and against men, and give him a pledge that He will make his innocence appear In Job 16:12 Jo...
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 i...
3. He must be vindicated by a heavenly witness. (Job 16:18-22) TEXT 16:18-22 18 O EARTH, COVER NOT THOU MY BLOOD, And let my cry have no _resting-place._ 19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heav...
_O EARTH, COVER NOT THOU MY BLOOD, AND LET MY CRY HAVE NO PLACE._ Inasmuch as Job is persuaded he shall soon die, he desires that his innocence, which is called in question while he is alive, may be...
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...
Job’s troubles seemed to prove that Job was guilty (verse 8). Job’s friends believed this (Job 22:4-11). But the Bible does not teach this idea (John 9:1-3). Job was sure that he was innocent. And God...
LET MY CRY HAVE NO PLACE. — That is, “Let there be no place in the wide earth where my cry shall not reach: let it have no resting place: let it fill the whole wide earth.”...
אֶ֭רֶץ אַל ־תְּכַסִּ֣י דָמִ֑י וְֽ אַל ־יְהִ֥י
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...
O earth, cover not thou my (s) blood, and let my cry have no place. (s) Let my sin be known if I am such a sinner as my adversaries accuse me, and let me find no favour....
_Hand, which has not been defiled with any injustice. (Menochius) --- When. Hebrew, "and my prayer was pure." I never neglected this sacred duty, (chap. i. 5.) as my friends accuse me, chap. xv. 4. (H...
(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...
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...
O EARTH, COVER NOT THOU MY BLOOD,.... This is an imprecation, wishing that if; he had been guilty of any capital crime, of such acts of injustice that he ought to be punished by the judge, and even to...
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. Ver. 18. _O earth, cover not thou my blood_] Job had made a high profession of his innocence and integrity. This he further confirmeth,...
_Not for any justice in my hands_ And all this is not come upon me for any injurious dealing, but for other reasons, known to God only; _also my prayer is pure_ I do not cast off God's fear and servic...
O earth, cover not thou my blood, so that it might cry to heaven in witness of his innocence, AND LET MY CRY HAVE NO PLACE, his call for vengeance should not be quieted until an avenger had arisen for...
JOB SHOWS THE PITIFULNESS OF HIS CASE AND MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE...
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...
"O EARTH, DO NOT COVER MY BLOOD": He longs that his injustice be vindicated (Genesis 4:10), and that his cry for justice be not forgotten or buried....
17-22 Job's condition was very deplorable; but he had the testimony of his conscience for him, that he never allowed himself in any gross sin. No one was ever more ready to acknowledge sins of infirm...
MY BLOOD, so called not actively, to wit, his own blood; but passively or objectively, i.e. the blood of others shed by him, and lying upon his conscience. The earth is said to cover that blood which...
Job 16:18 earth H776 cover H3680 (H8762) blood H1818 cry H2201 place H4725 O earth - Jeremiah
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...
_Not for any injustice in mine hands._ A GOOD MAN’S CONFIDENCE In these words Job delivers us-- 1. The confidence of a godly man. 2. That kind of infirm anguish and indignation, that half-distempe...
_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...
Ezekiel 24:7; Genesis 4:11; Isaiah 1:15; Isaiah 26:21; Isaiah 58:10;...
Earth — The earth is said to cover that blood, which lies undiscovered and unrevenged: but saith Job, if I be guilty of destroying any man, let the earth disclose it; let it be brought to light. Cry —...