Job 16:5

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 between complaint of God in the third person and direct address to Him.

7b. Perhaps a reference to the loss of his family (Job 1:18).