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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 16:12

I was at ease. — A highly poetical passage, in which Job becomes, as it were, a St. Sebastian for the arrows of God. It is hardly possible to conceive a more vivid picture of his desolate condition under the persecuting hand of the Almighty.

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See also Job 16:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WAS AT EASE - I was in a state of happiness and security. The word used here (שׁלו _shâlêv_) means sometimes to be “at ease” in an improper sense; that is, to be in a state of “carnal security,” o...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The figure of a man seized by another of overwhelming strength and dashed to pieces. This attack was sudden and unexpected, when Job was at ease and in security cf. ch. Job 29:2 _seq_. This meets what...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    More particular description of the hostile attack of God, its unexpectedness and destructiveness....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _I WAS AT EASE, BUT HE HATH BROKEN ME ASUNDER: HE HATH ALSO TAKEN ME BY MY NECK, AND SHAKEN ME TO PIECES, AND SET ME UP FOR HIS MARK._ I was at ease - in past times, (Job 1:1.) BY MY NECK - as an a...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שָׁ֘לֵ֤ו הָיִ֨יתִי ׀ וַֽ יְפַרְפְּרֵ֗נִי וְ אָחַ֣ז...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I WAS AT EASE, BUT HE HATH BROKEN ME ASUNDER,.... He was in easy and affluent circumstances, abounding with the good things of this life, lay in his nest, as his expression is, Job 29:18; quietly and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken [me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. Ver. 12. _I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder_] It is n...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I was at ease_ I lived in great peace and prosperity, and was contented and happy in the comfortable enjoyment of the gifts of God's bounty, not fretful and uneasy, as some are, in the midst of the b...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I was at ease, but He hath broken me asunder, shattering him, dashing him to pieces; HE HATH ALSO TAKEN ME BY MY NECK AND SHAKEN ME TO PIECES, like a man who is seized by his head and thrown down over...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB SHOWS THE PITIFULNESS OF HIS CASE AND MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Suddenly and unexpectedly God had attacked him, without any warning. Job feels that God is using him for target practice....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I lived in great peace and prosperity, which makes my present miseries more grievous to me; and therefore my complaints are excusable, and I deserve pity rather than reproach from my friends. BROKEN M...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 16:12 ease H7961 shattered H6565 (H8770) taken H270 (H8804) neck H6203 pieces H6327 (H8770) up...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 16:12 Like a city invaded during war, Job feels that he has endured BREACH UPON BREACH from God. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 29:7; Job 1:2; Job 1:3; Job 15:26; Job 29:18;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Shaken — As a mighty man doth with some stripling, when he wrestleth with him. Mark — That he may shoot all his arrows in me....

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