“ My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; ”
My face is foul with weeping - Wemyss, “swelled.” Noyes, “red.” Good, “tarnished.” Luther, “ist geschwollen” - is swelled. So Jerome. The Septuagint, strangely enough, ἡ γαστήρ μον συνκέκαυτ...
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...
shadow of death. Not. mere shade or shadow, but the deep darkness of the grave. Compare Job 3:5 ; Job 10:21 ; Job 12:22 ; Job 24:17 ; Job 28:3 ; Job 34:22 , &c.
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; On my eyelids is the shadow of death - Death is now fast approaching me; already his shadow is projected over me.
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; Foul, х chaamarmªruw ( H2560 )] - rather, 'is very red;' i:e., violently inflamed, flushed and heated (Umbreit and...
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.
Foul. — Rather, perhaps, red, as with wine.
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...
My face is foul with weeping ,.... On account of the loss of his substance, and especially of his children; at the unkindness of his friends, and over his own corruptions, which he felt working in h...
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [is] the shadow of death; Ver. 16. My face is foul with weeping ] Is swelled, saith the Vulgate. Is shrivelled up, say the Jewish doctors. Is double...
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. A gross and terrible darkness. My sight is very dim and dark, as is usual in case of sore diseases, or excessive grief and weeping, Lamentations 2:11 ; and especially in the approach of deat...
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
Isaiah 52:14 ; Job 17:7 ; Jonah 2:1-10 ; Lamentations 1:16 ; Mark 14:34 ; Psalms 102:3-5 ; Psalms 102:9 ; Psalms 116:3 ; Psalms 31:9 ; Psalms 32:3 ; Psalms 6:6 ; Psalms 6:7 ; Psalms 69:3...