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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 16:8

Witness against me. — As in Job 10:17. The wrinkles in his body, caused by the disease, were a witness against him; and certainly, in the eyes of his friends, they furnished unquestionable proof of his guilt.

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See also Job 16:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 16:8. _THOU HAST FILLED ME WITH WRINKLES_] If Job's disease were the _elephantiasis_, in which the whole skin is _wrinkled_ as the skin of the _elephant_, from which this species of leprosy...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THOU HAST FILLED ME WITH WRINKLES - Noyes renders this, “and thou hast seized hold of me, which is a witness against me.” Wemyss, “since thou hast bound me with chains, witnesses come forward.” Go...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    IS. is become. LEANNESS. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The verse reads, Thou hast laid hold of me, and it is become a witness against me; And my leanness riseth up against me; it beareth witness to my face. By God's seizing or laying hold of him Job me...

  • 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...

  • 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

    _AND THOU HAST FILLED ME WITH WRINKLES, WHICH IS A WITNESS AGAINST ME: AND MY LEANNESS RISING UP IN ME BEARETH WITNESS TO MY FACE._ Filled with wrinkles - rather [as also the same Hebrew word, _ QAAM...

  • 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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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 vouc...

  • 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

    וַֽ֭ תִּקְמְטֵנִי לְ עֵ֣ד הָיָ֑ה וַ יָּ֥קָם

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And thou hast filled me with (i) wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. (i) In token of sorrow and grief....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Limbs. Hebrew, "company," (Haydock) or family. The assemblage of my limbs is also disordered by the leprosy._...

  • 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

    AND THOU HAST FILLED ME WITH WRINKLES,.... Not through old age, but through affliction, which had sunk his flesh, and made furrows in him, so that he looked older than he was, and was made old thereby...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. Ver. 8. _Thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness ag...

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

    _Thou hast filled me with wrinkles_ By consuming my flesh and reducing my body; _which is a witness_ Of the reality and greatness, and just cause of my sorrows. Or, _which is made a witness;_ that is,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me, the fact that God had seized him and placed him in a shriveled and wrinkled condition seemed a witness of his guilt; AND MY LEANNE...

  • 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...

  • 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

    THOU HAST FILLED ME WITH WRINKLES, by consuming all my fat and flesh. WHICH IS A WITNESS AGAINST ME; Heb. which is a witness of the reality, and greatness, and just cause of my sorrows. Or, which is _...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 16:8 shriveled H7059 (H8799) witness H5707 leanness H3585 up H6965 (H8799) witness H6030 (H8799) face...

  • 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 16:8 To counter Eliphaz’s description of the “fat” wicked person (Job 15:27), Job points to his own SHRIVELED and shrunken state. It testifies

  • 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

    Ephesians 5:27; Isaiah 10:16; Isaiah 24:16; Job 10:17; Psalms 106:15

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