“ Then Job answered and said, ”
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 an...
answered . replied. See note on Job 4:1 .
Then Job answered and said,
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 s...
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.
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...
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again i...
Turning from “Miserable Comforters” unto God Job 16:1-22 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...
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...
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, 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...
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 l...
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...
The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I have heard...
JOB CHAPTER 16 Job's answer: his friends increase his misery, Job 16:1-8 . His insulting enemies, Job 16:9-11 . God's power against him, Job 16:12-16 . His innocence should cry to heaven,...
JOB’S SECOND REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Complains of the want of sympathy on the part of his friends ( Job 16:2-5 ). 1. They gave him only verses from the ancients about the punishment of the wicked...
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 Eli...
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...
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 desp...
Then Job answered and said, in repudiating also this speech and its insinuations,
Job 16:1