Job 16:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. ”

Job 16:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They have gaped upon me - Changing the form from the singular to the plural, and including “all” his pretended friends. Such a change in the number is not uncommon. His mind seems to have passed...
Job 16:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the (l) cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. (l) That is, has handled me contemptuously: for so...
Job 16:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 16:6-17 contain a bitter complaint of God's ferocity against Job, in spite of his innocence. The connexion of Job 16:6 with the context is not clear: RV translation is probably, however, co...
Job 16:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
Job 16:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

They have gathered themselves together against me— They are ready to burst with fury against me. Heath. They have unanimously satiated their wrath upon me. Houbigant.
Job 16:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. Not only doth God assail Job, but also He expose...
Job 16:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 16:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Job 16:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 16:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Job 16:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(7) But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. (8) And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to...
Job 16:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They have gaped upon me with their mouth ,.... Here Job speaks of the instruments which God suffered to use him ill; and he has respect to his friends who came with open mouth against him, loading h...
Job 16:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. Ver. 10. They have gaped upon me with their mouth ]...
Job 16:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They My friends, the instruments of God's anger; have gaped upon me with their mouth Have opened their mouths wide against me; either, 1st, To devour and destroy me, as a lion which falls upon it...
Job 16:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Job 16:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Grievances of Job. B. C. 1520. 6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though...
Job 16:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They; the instruments of God's anger, my friends, as they are falsely called. Gaped upon me with their mouth; opened their mouths wide against me; either, 1. To devour and destroy me; as a lion...
Job 16:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 16:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Job 16:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Job 16:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Shows The Pitifulness of his Case and Maintains his Innocence
Job 16:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 22:24 ; 2 Chronicles 18:23 ; 2 Corinthians 11:20 ; Acts 23:2 ; Acts 4:27 ; Isaiah 50:6 ; John 18:22 ; Lamentations 3:30 ; Luke 23:35 ; Luke 23:36 ; Micah 5:1 ; Matthew 26:67 ; Ps...
Job 16:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

They — My friends. Gaped — Opened their mouths wide against me. In all this Job was a type of Christ. These very expressions are used in the predictions of his sufferings, Psalms 22:13 . They gape...

Job 16:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 16:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 16:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 16:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 16:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 16:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 16:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 16:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 16:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 16:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 16:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 16:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 16:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 16:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 16:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 16:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 16:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 16:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 16:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 16:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 16:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 16:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 16:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes