“ Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. ”
Not for any injustice ... - Still claiming that he does not deserve his sorrows, and that these calamities had not come upon him on account of any enormous sins, as his friends believed. My pr...
Not for [any] injustice in (q) mine hands: also my prayer (r) [is] pure. (q) Signifying that he is not able to understand the cause of this his grievous punishment. (r) That is, unfeigned and witho...
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...
injustice . violence. Only occurrence of English word in O.T.
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. Not for any injustice - I must assert, even with my last breath, that the charges of my friends against me are groundless. I am afflic...
Not for any injustice, &c.— Although there is not iniquity in my hands; although my prayers are pure before God. Houbigant.
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. Job here reform to Zophar's implied charge ( Job 11:14-15 ). Nearly the same words occur as to Jesus Christ ( Isaiah 53:9 , "He had...
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.
Not for any injustice. — Literally, for no injustice, just as in Isaiah 53:9 : “because he had done no violence,” should be “not because he had done any violence, or because deceit was in his m...
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...
Not for [any] injustice in my hands ,.... Came all those afflictions and calamities upon him, which occasioned so much sorrow, weeping, mourning, and humiliation; he does not say there was no sin in...
Not for [any] injustice in mine hands: also my prayer [is] pure. Ver. 17. Not for any injustice (Heb. Violence or wrong doing) in my hands] Job could wash his hands of that rapine and bribery where...
Not for any justice in my hands And all this is not come upon me for any injurious dealing, but for other reasons, known to God only; also my prayer is pure I do not cast off God's fear and servi...
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...
Testimony of Conscience; Job's Comfort in Conscious Integrity. B. C. 1520. 17 Not for...
And all this is not come upon me for any injurious dealing with others by oppression, or deceit, or bribery, wherewith I am implicitly charged, Job 15:16,20,34 ; but for other reasons known to 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...
Not for any injustice in mine hands. A good man’s confidence In these words Job delivers us-- 1. The confidence of a godly man. 2. That kind of infirm anguish and indignation, that half-d...
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 Timothy 2:8 ; Job 11:14 ; Job 15:20 ; Job 15:34 ; Job 21:27 ; Job 21:28 ; Job 22:5-9 ; Job 27:6 ; Job 27:7 ; Job 29:12-17 ; Job 31:1-40 ; Job 8:5 ; Job 8:6 ; Proverbs 15:8 ; Psalms 4...
Not — And all this is not come upon me for any injurious dealing, but for other reasons known to God only. Pure — I do not cast off God's fear and service, Job 15:4 . I do still pray and worship G...