“ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. ”
I have sewed sackcloth - I have put on the badges of humiliation and grief; see the notes at Isaiah 3:24 . This was the usual emblem of mourning. In order more deeply to express it, or to make i...
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my (p) horn in the dust. (p) Meaning, his glory was brought low.
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...
sewed sackcloth, &c. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the sorrow which accompanied it.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. I have sewed sackcloth - שק sak, a word that has passed into almost all languages, as I have already had occasion to notice in ot...
I have sewed sackcloth— The meaning of this verse is, I have sewn sackcloth (in token of grief) over my torn skin, and have defiled my head, my horn, or honour, with ashes. See Schultens and...
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. Sewed - denoting the tight fit of the mourning garment: it was a sack with arm-holes, closely sewed to the body. Horn...
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.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin. — Referring, probably, to the state of his skin, which had become hard and rugged as sackcloth. As the second half of the verse must be figurative, there seems...
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...
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin ,.... Which he very probably put on when he rent his mantle, or sat in ashes, Job 1:20 ; which actions were usually performed together in times of distress and s...
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. Ver. 15. I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin ] Not silks, but sackcloth, is now mine immediate clothing, next to my very skin,...
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin I have put on sackcloth, not upon my other garments, but next to my skin; as was done in great calamities. So far am I from stretching out my hands against God...
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...
i.e. I put on sackcloth sewed together, not upon my other garments, but next to my skin, as was done in great calamities; as 2 Kings 6:30 . So far am I from stretching out my hands against God ,...
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
1 Kings 21:27 ; 1 Samuel 2:10 ; Isaiah 22:12 ; Job 30:19 ; Psalms 7:5 ; Psalms 75:10 ; Psalms 75:5
I have — So far am I from stretching out my hand against God, Job 15:25 , that I have humbled myself deeply under his hand. I have not only put on sackcloth, but sewed it on, as being resolved to...