Bible Commentary

And thou hast filled me with wrath, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. 8. 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 … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 16:8”

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. 7. made me weary ] i. e. exhausted me; and now describes the new situation which he realizes. The second clause indicates in what way he had been wearied or exhausted, all his “company,” his familiar friends, all on whom he … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 16:7”

Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased? 6. my grief ] i. e. my pain; see on ch. Job 2:13. what am I eased ] lit. as margin, what (of my pain or trouble) goeth from me? Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 6 … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 16:6”

[But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage [your grief]. 5. 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 … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 16:5”

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 head at you. 4. I could heap up words ] Rather, I could compose words. By “composing” or joining together words Job means making formal, artificial and heartless speeches; cf. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 16:4”

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 3. Shall vain words have an end ] lit. is there any end to words of wind? To retort their charge of “windy knowledge” (ch. Job 15:2), Job cannot help fearing that there is no end to such empty harangues on their … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 16:3”

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all. 2. many such things ] Job cannot help expressing his impatience of the sameness and the amount of his friends’ talk, and its uselessness or even worse. miserable comforters ] The margin is, troublesome comforters, lit. comforters of trouble, whose comfort brings no ease … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 16:2”

Then Job answered and said, Ch. 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 Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Job 16:1-3 Miserable comforters are ye all. Miserable comforters They are but sorry comforters who, being confounded with … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 16:1”

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. 35. Finally Eliphaz condenses into an expressive figure the general doctrine both of this and his former discourse, namely, that suffering and disaster follow, as by a law of nature, doing evil and wrong. In Job 4:8, “They that sow wickedness reap the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 15:35”

For the congregation of hypocrites [shall be] desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. 34. The same truth as that expressed in Job 15:31-32 now taught without figure, and reduced to a general principle. congregation of hypocrites ] Or, company of the ungodly, ch. Job 8:13; Job 13:16. “Desolate” is barren (ch. Job … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 15:34”