“ I have heard many such things: miserablea comforters are ye all. ”
Many such things - That is, either things fitted to provoke and irritate, or sentiments that are common-place. There was nothing new in what they said, and nothing to the purpose. Miserable co...
Job has had enough of his tormenting comforters ( Job 16:2 f.). He could, if the positions were reversed, well enough offer them such mere verbal consolation (the stress in Job 16:5 is on mouth an...
miserable . wearisome.
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. I have heard many such things - These sayings of the ancients are not strange to me; but they do not apply to my case: ye see me in a...
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. Miserable - burdensome; i:e., annoying. (cf. Job 13:4 )
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 heard many such things. — Trite rather than true, or at least the whole truth. “Common is the common-place, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.”
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...
(1) В¶ Then Job answered and said, (2) I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. The retort Job makes on Eliphaz, is to the same amount as before. He had already heard much rea...
I have heard many such things ,.... As those Eliphaz has been discoursing of, concerning the punishment of wicked men; many instances of this kind had been reported to him from his preceptors, and f...
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all. Ver. 2. I have heard many such things ] Heard them over and over, till I am even sated and nauseated, Vexatus toties rauci; q....
I have heard many such things Both from you and divers others; and though you please yourselves with them, as if you had some great and important discoveries, they are but vulgar and trivial things...
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...
The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I have heard...
I have heard many such things; both from you, who do so odiously repeat the same things, and from divers others; for these things, though you pride and please yourselves in them, as if you had made...
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...
Miserable comforters are ye all. Miserable comforters They are but sorry comforters who, being confounded with the sight of the afflicted’s trouble, do grate upon their (real or supposed) guilt...
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 Complains of the Unmerciful Attitude of his Friends
James 1:19 ; Job 11:2 ; Job 11:3 ; Job 13:4 ; Job 13:5 ; Job 19:2 ; Job 19:3 ; Job 26:2 ; Job 26:3 ; Job 6:25 ; Job 6:6 ; Philippians 1:16 ; Psalms 69:26
Such things — These things are but vulgar and trivial. And so are all creatures, to a soul under deep conviction of sin, or the arrest of death.