“ He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. ”
He breaketh me - He crushes me. With breach upon breach - He renews and repeats the attack, and thus completely overwhelms me. One blow follows another in such quick succession, that he does...
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...
giant . mighty man. Hebrew. gibbor. App-14.
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
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...
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. The image is from storming a fortress by making breaches in the walls ( 2 Kings 14:13 ). A giant - a mighty warrior...
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.
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...
(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...
He breaketh me with breach upon breach ,.... Upon his substance, his family, and the health of his body, which came thick and fast, one after another; referring to the report of those things brought...
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. Ver. 14. He breaketh me with breach upon breach ] So that I have hardly any breathing while, Quis tot et tantis ferendis s...
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 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...
Grievances of Job. B. C. 1520. 6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though...
My calamities have no interruption, but one immediately succeeds another, as it did Job 1 . Like a giant, who falls upon his enemy with all his might, that he may overthrow and kill him.
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...
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 Shows The Pitifulness of his Case and Maintains his Innocence
Judges 15:8 ; Lamentations 3:3-5 ; Psalms 42:7