“ O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. ”
O earth - Passionate appeals to the earth are not uncommon in the Scriptures; see the notes at Isaiah 1:2 . Such appeals indicate deep emotion, and are among the most animated forms of personifi...
O earth, cover not thou my (s) blood, and let my cry have no place. (s) Let my sin be known if I am such a sinner as my adversaries accuse me, and let me find no favour.
Job cries to the avenger of blood to avenge his innocence. He is a martyr, and feels that his blood must cry for vengeance ( Genesis 4:10 *, Revelation 6:10 ). Job arrives at the astounding thought...
O. Figure of speech Ecphonesis. App-6. cover not. my blood. The reference is to the practice which remains to this day, based on Numbers 35:33 . Leviticus 17:13 . Job's desire is that the evi...
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. O earth, cover not thou my blood - This is evidently an allusion to the murder of Abel, and the verse has been understood in two differ...
O earth, cover not thou my blood, &c.— O earth! cover not thou my blood, lest there be no place for my cry! Job 16:19 . Yea, even now my witness is in heaven; and He who is conscious of my...
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. Inasmuch as Job is persuaded he shall soon die, he desires that his innocence, which is called in question while he is alive, ma...
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.
Let my cry have no place. — That is, “Let there be no place in the wide earth where my cry shall not reach: let it have no resting place: let it fill the whole wide earth.”
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...
O earth, cover not thou my blood ,.... This is an imprecation, wishing that if; he had been guilty of any capital crime, of such acts of injustice that he ought to be punished by the judge, and even...
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. Ver. 18. O earth, cover not thou my blood ] Job had made a high profession of his innocence and integrity. This he further confirmet...
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...
My blood, so called not actively, to wit, his own blood; but passively or objectively, i.e. the blood of others shed by him, and lying upon his conscience. The earth is said to cover that blood whi...
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
Ezekiel 24:7 ; Genesis 4:11 ; Isaiah 1:15 ; Isaiah 26:21 ; Isaiah 58:10 ; Isaiah 58:9 ; James 4:3 ; James 4:4 ; Jeremiah 22:29 ; Job 27:9 ; Nehemiah 4:5 ; Psalms 66:18 ; Psalms 66:19
Earth — The earth is said to cover that blood, which lies undiscovered and unrevenged: but saith Job, if I be guilty of destroying any man, let the earth disclose it; let it be brought to light. Cr...