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Verse Job 16:5. _I WOULD STRENGTHEN YOU WITH MY MOUTH_] Mr. _Good_
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"With my own mouth will I overpower you,
Till the quivering of my lips shall fail;"
for which rendering he con...
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(But I would strengthen you with my mouth With that which proceeds
from the mouth - words.
AND THE MOVING OF MY LIPS - My speaking - implying that it would have
been done in a mild, gentle, kind mann...
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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...
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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...
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The verse no doubt carries on the idea of the preceding:
I could strengthen you with my mouth,
And the condolence of my lips could assuage your grief.
The emphasis falls on _mouth_and _lips_. Job c...
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Job then, with the supercilious contempt peculiar to him and in
justification of his rejection of their "comfort," holds up a picture
of it before them: their method is not a difficult one, he also co...
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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...
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BUT I WOULD STRENGTHEN YOU WITH MY MOUTH— _I would rather encourage
you with my mouth, and the vehemency of my eloquence should be kept
within bounds._ This is very applicable to the treatment that he...
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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...
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_BUT I WOULD STRENGTHEN YOU WITH MY MOUTH, AND THE MOVING OF MY LIPS
SHOULD ASSWAGE YOUR GRIEF._
Strengthen with ... mouth - bitter irony. In allusion to Eliphaz'
boasted "consolations" (Job 15:11)....
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16:5 solace (e-11) Or 'movement.'...
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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. T...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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אֲאַמִּצְכֶ֥ם בְּמֹו ־פִ֑י וְ נִ֖יד
שְׂפָתַ֣י...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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_Wag, or shake my head out of pity, chap. xlii. 11., and Nahum iii. 7.
The same sign often indicates astonishment or contempt, Psalm xxi. 8.,
and Matthew xxvii. 28. (Calmet)_...
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(3) Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou
answerest? (4) I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my
soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine...
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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...
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[BUT] I WOULD STRENGTHEN YOU WITH MY MOUTH,.... Comfort them with the
words of his mouth; so God strengthens his people with strength in
their souls, when he answers them with good and comfortable wor...
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Job 16:5 [But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of
my lips should asswage [your grief].
Ver. 5. _But I would strengthen you with my mouth_] I would speak to
your hearts, and raise...
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_But I would strengthen you with my mouth_ I would endeavour to
direct, support, and comfort you, and say all I could to assuage your
grief, but nothing to aggravate it. It is natural to sufferers to...
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JOB COMPLAINS OF THE UNMERCIFUL ATTITUDE OF HIS FRIENDS...
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But I would strengthen you with my mouth, mere words taking the place
of real deeds of love, AND THE MOVING OF MY LIPS SHOULD ASSUAGE YOUR
GRIEF, a bitter reference to the hollow consolations which El...
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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...
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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...
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STRENGTHEN YOU, i.e. direct, and support, and comfort you. My
discourse should comfort you. The words _your grief_ are here
understood, either out of the foregoing clause, where they are
implied; or o...
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Job 16:5 strengthen H553 (H8762) with H1119 mouth H6310 comfort H5205
lips H8193 relieve H2820 (H8799)
But I
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Galatians 6:1; Isaiah 35:3; Isaiah 35:4; Job 29:25; Job 4:3;...