“ My friends scorn me: but mine eyed poureth out tears unto God. ”
My friends scorn me - Margin “are my scorners.” That is, his friends had him in derision and mocked him, and he could only appeal with tears to God. Mine eye poureth out tears unto God - Desp...
My friends (u) scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God. (u) Use painted words instead of true consolation.
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...
friends . neighbours. GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4.
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. My friends scorn me - They deride and insult me, but my eye is towards God; I look to him to vindicate my cause.
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. Hebrew, more forcibly, 'my mockers-my friends!' A heart-cutting paradox! (Umbreit.) God alone remains to whom he can look for atte...
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.
My friends scorn me. — Or, as an apostrophe, “Ye my scorners who profess and ought to be my friends: mine eye poureth out tears unto God that He would maintain the right of man with God, and of the...
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...
(19) Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. (20) My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. (21) O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man p...
My friends scorn me ,.... Not that they scoffed at his afflictions and calamities, and at his diseases and disorders, that would have been very brutish and inhuman, but at his words, the arguments a...
My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God. Ver. 20. My friends scorn me ] Or, play the rhetoricians against me. David likewise complaineth of his rhetorical mockers at feast...
Behold, my witness is in heaven Besides the witness of men, and of my own conscience, God is witness of my integrity. The witness of men, and even that in our own bosoms for us, will stand us in li...
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 friends, who should defend me from the scorns and injuries of others, scorn me; so this word is used Psalms 119:51 Proverbs 3:34 , Proverbs 19:28 . I pour forth my prayers and tears to G...
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
Hebrews 5:7 ; Hosea 12:4 ; Hosea 12:5 ; Job 12:4 ; Job 12:5 ; Job 16:4 ; Job 17:2 ; Luke 6:11 ; Luke 6:12 ; Psalms 109:4 ; Psalms 142:2