Job 16:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! ”

• Job 16:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Oh that one might plead for a man - A more correct rendering of this would be, “Oh that it might be for a man to contend with God;” that is, in a judicial controversy. It is the expression of an...

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• Job 16:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man (x) [pleadeth] for his neighbour! (x) Thus by his great torments he is carried away, and breaks out into passions, and speaks unadvisedly, as thou...

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• Job 16:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 16:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  man . strong man. Hebrew. geber. App-14. man . son of man. Hebrew. ben-'adam. App-14.

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• Job 16:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! O that one might plead - Let me only have liberty to plead with God, as a man hath with his fellow.

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• Job 16:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! One - rather, He (God). 'O that, he would plead for a man (namely me) against God.' Job quaintly says, God must...

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• Job 16:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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.

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• Job 16:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Job 16:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Job 16:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Job 16:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 16:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Oh that one might plead for a man with God ,.... That is, that one might be appointed and allowed to plead with God on his account; or that he be admitted to plead with God for himself; or however,...

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• Job 16:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbour! Ver. 21. O that one might plead for a man with God ] Heb. And he will plead for a man with God, and the Son of man...

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• Job 16:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  O that one might plead for a man with God O that either I or some faithful advocate might be admitted to plead my cause, either with God, or rather with you before God's tribunal, God being witness...

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• Job 16:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 16:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Testimony of Conscience; Job's Comfort in Conscious Integrity. B. C. 1520.       17 Not for...

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• Job 16:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Oh that either I or some faithful advocate might be admitted to plead any cause, either with God, or rather with you, before God's tribunal, God being witness and judge between us! But this verse is,...

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• Job 16:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Job 16:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 16:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Job 16:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Shows The Pitifulness of his Case and Maintains his Innocence

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• Job 16:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ecclesiastes 6:10 ; Isaiah 45:9 ; Job 13:22 ; Job 13:3 ; Job 23:3-7 ; Job 31:35 ; Job 40:1-5 ; Job 9:34 ; Job 9:35 ; Romans 9:20

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