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Verse Job 16:22. _WHEN A FEW YEARS ARE COME_] I prefer Mr. _Good's_
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"But the years numbered to me are come.
And I must go the way whence I shall not return."
Job could not, in his presen...
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WHEN A FEW YEARS ARE COME - Margin “years of number;” that is,
numbered years, or a few years. The same idea is expressed in Job
7:21; see the notes at that place. The idea is, that he must soon die....
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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 16:22 TO JOB 17:16. Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine
vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must
now die.
JOB 17:2 is obscure; the general sense seems to be...
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THE WAY, &C. Figure of speech _Euphemism_ (App-6), for death....
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Job 16:18 to Job 17:9. Job, dying a martyr's death, beseeches God that
He would uphold his right with God and against men, and give him a
pledge that He will make his innocence appear
In Job 16:12 Jo...
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3. He must be vindicated by a heavenly witness. (Job 16:18-22)
TEXT 16:18-22
18 O EARTH, COVER NOT THOU MY BLOOD,
And let my cry have no _resting-place._
19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heav...
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_WHEN A FEW YEARS ARE COME, THEN I SHALL GO THE WAY WHENCE I SHALL NOT
RETURN._
Few - literally, 'years of number;' i:e., few, opposed to numberless
(Genesis 34:30), "I being few in number").
Remark...
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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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WHEN A FEW YEARS ARE COME. — Literally, _years of number,_ which
means either “years than can be easily numbered,” as _men of
number_ (Genesis 34:20) is used to express _few men;_ or “years that
are n...
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כִּֽי ־שְׁנֹ֣ות מִסְפָּ֣ר יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ
וְ אֹ֖רַח לֹא ־אָשׁ֣וּב אֶהֱלֹֽךְ׃...
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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 ter...
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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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_Judged. Hebrew, "might plead." (Haydock) --- Earthly judges may be
compelled to pronounce sentence publicly. Job is afraid lest the
justice of his cause should remain undecided, till death overtook h...
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(19) Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on
high. (20) My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto
God. (21) O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pl...
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_OUR LAST JOURNEY_
‘When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall
not return.’
Job 16:22
I. LET US REALISE OUR INEVITABLE JOURNEY.
II. LET US CONTEMPLATE ITS NEARNESS.
III....
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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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WHEN A FEW YEARS ARE COME,.... As the years of man's life are but few
at most, and Job's years, which were yet to come, still fewer in his
apprehension; or "years of number" m, that are numbered by Go...
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When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall
not return.
Ver. 22. _When a few years are come, &c._] Heb. Years of number; that
is, years that may easily be counted and cast up....
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_When a few years are come_ The number of years which is determined
and appointed to me; _then I shall go the way whence I shall not
return_ Namely, to the state and place of the dead, whence men cann...
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JOB SHOWS THE PITIFULNESS OF HIS CASE AND MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE...
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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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A FEW YEARS:
_ Heb._ years of number...
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And he needed this opportunity now for time was running out. "His few
years would soon come to an end, and he could not possibly return (to
appear in court) after death" _(Zuck p. 78)._...
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17-22 Job's condition was very deplorable; but he had the testimony
of his conscience for him, that he never allowed himself in any gross
sin. No one was ever more ready to acknowledge sins of infirm...
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i.e. To the state and place of the dead, whence men do not and cannot
return to this life. The meaning is, My death hastens, and therefore I
earnestly desire that the cause depending before God betwee...
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Job 16:22 few H4557 years H8141 finished H857 (H8799) go H1980 (H8799)
way H734 return H7725 (H8799)
a few years - Heb. years of number, Job 14:5, Job 14:14
whence - Job 7:9-10, Job 14:10;...
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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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_When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not
return._
THE SHORTNESS OF HUMAN LIFE
Doctrine--The coming in of a few new years will set us out of this
world, never to return...
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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 embolden...
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Ecclesiastes 12:5; Job 14:10; Job 14:14; Job 14:5; Job 7:10; Job 7:9...
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Go — To the state and place of the dead, whence men cannot return to
this life. The meaning is, my death hastens, and therefore I earnestly
desire that the cause depending, between me and my friends,...