Job 16:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. ”

Job 16:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His archers - He does not come alone to shoot at me; he has employed a company of bowmen, who also direct “their” arrows against me. The word used here רב rab means properly “much, large,” gr...
Job 16:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

His (n) archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall (o) upon the ground. (n) His manifold afflictions. (o) I am wounded to the heart.
Job 16:13 - 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 16:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. His archers compass me - רביו rabbaiv "his great ones." The Vulgate and S...
Job 16:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

His archers compass me, &c.— The metaphor is here taken from huntsmen. First they surround the beast; then he is shot dead; his entrails are next taken out; and then his body is broken up limb...
Job 16:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. His archers. The image of last verse is continued. God, in making...
Job 16:13 - 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 16:13 - 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 16:13 - 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 16:13 - 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 16:13 - 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 16:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

His archers compass me round about ,.... Satan and his principalities and powers casting their fiery darts at him; or rather, his friends shooting their arrows, even bitter words, reproaches, and ca...
Job 16:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. Ver. 13. His archers compass me round about ] i.e. His instruments o...
Job 16:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

His archers compass me round about His plagues or judgments, elsewhere compared to arrows, and here to archers, surround me on all sides, and assault me from every quarter. Whoever are our enemies,...
Job 16:13 - 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 16:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Grievances of Job. B. C. 1520. 6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though...
Job 16:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

His archers, i.e. his plagues or judgments, elsewhere compared to arrows, and here to archers. He cleaveth my reins asunder with his arrows, i.e. he wounds me inwardly, and mortally, and incurabl...
Job 16:13 - 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 16:13 - 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 16:13 - 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 16:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Shows The Pitifulness of his Case and Maintains his Innocence
Job 16:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 2:5 ; Deuteronomy 29:20 ; Ezekiel 5:11 ; Genesis 49:23 ; Job 19:27 ; Job 20:25 ; Job 6:10 ; Job 6:4 ; Lamentations 2:11 ; Lamentations 3:13 ; Psalms 7:12 ; Psalms 7:13 ; Romans 8...
Job 16:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

His archers — Whoever are our enemies, we must look on them as God's archers, and see him directing the arrow.

Job 16:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 16:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 16:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 16:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 16:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 16:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 16:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 16:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 16:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 16:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 16:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 16:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 16:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 16:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 16:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 16:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 16:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 16:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 16:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 16:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 16:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 16:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 16:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes