John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible
Job 16:1
Then Job answered and said. As soon as Eliphaz had done speaking, Job stood up, and made the following reply.
Then Job answered and said. As soon as Eliphaz had done speaking, Job stood up, and made the following reply.
CHAPTER XVI _Job replies to Eliphaz, and through him to all his friends,_ _who, instead of comforting him, had added to his misfortunes;_ _and shows that, had they been in his circumstances, he wou...
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 has had enough of his tormenting comforters (Job 16:2 f.). He could, if the positions were reversed, well enough offer them such mere verbal consolation (the stress in Job 16:5 is on mouth and lip...
ANSWERED. replied. See note on Job 4:1....
Job 16:1-5. Job expresses his weariness of the monotony of his friends'speeches, and rejects their consolation, which is only that of the lip...
_JOB EXPOSTULATES WITH HIS FRIENDS ON THEIR UNKIND TREATMENT; AND DECLARES, THAT IF THEY WERE IN THE LIKE DISTRESS HE WOULD BEHAVE TO THEM IN A DIFFERENT MANNER. HE SETS FORTH THE GREATNESS OF HIS SUF...
B. JOB'S TRIALVINDICATION OR? (Job 16:1, Job 17:16). 1. The words of his friends are aimless and unprofitable. (Job 16:1-5) TEXT 16:1-5 16 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, 2 I have heard many such thing...
_THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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....
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 friends wanted to help him. They tried to teach him about God. They tried to show Job his errors. And they wanted to encourage him. But their words did not help Job. They never understood the r...
XVI. (1) THEN JOB ANSWERED. — Job, in replying, ceases to continue the argument, which he finds useless; but, after complaining of the way his friends have conducted it, and contrasting the way in whi...
וַ יַּ֥עַן אִיֹּ֗וב וַ יֹּאמַֽר׃...
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...
CONTENTS Job in this chapter is again entering upon his defense. He complains of the unkindness of his friends; pleads for more tenderness from them; shows the pitifulness of his case: and again, as...
(1) В¶ Then Job answered and said, (2) I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. The retort Job makes on Eliphaz, is to the same amount as before. He had already heard much reaso...
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...
Then Job answered and said, Ver. 1. _Then Job answered and said_] Although he had little or nothing to answer unto but what he had answered before, yet that he might not say nothing, he replieth to E...
_Then Job answered and said_ “Job, above measure grieved that his friends should treat him in this cruel manner, expostulates very tenderly with them on the subject. He tells them he should, in the li...
JOB COMPLAINS OF THE UNMERCIFUL ATTITUDE OF HIS FRIENDS...
Then Job answered and said, in repudiating also this speech and its insinuations,...
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...
1-5 Eliphaz had represented Job's discourses as unprofitable, and nothing to the purpose; Job here gives his the same character. Those who pass censures, must expect to have them retorted; it is easy...
JOB CHAPTER 16 Job's answer: his friends increase his misery, JOB 16:1. His insulting enemies, JOB 16:9. God's power against him, JOB 16:12. His innocence should cry to heaven, where it was known: he...
Job 16:1 Job H347 answered H6030 (H8799) said H559 (H8799)...
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...
_Miserable comforters are ye all._ MISERABLE COMFORTERS They are but sorry comforters who, being confounded with the sight of the afflicted’s trouble, do grate upon their (real or supposed) guilt, w...
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...
_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...
Job 16:1...