“ When a fewe years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. ”
When a few years are come - Margin “years of number;” that is, numbered years, or a few years. The same idea is expressed in Job 7:21 ; see the notes at that place. The idea is, that he must soo...
Job 16:22 to Job 17:16 . Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must now die. Job 17:2 is obscure; the general sense...
the way, &c. Figure of speech Euphemism (App-6), for death.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. When a few years are come - I prefer Mr. Good's version: - "But the years numbered to me are come. And I must go the...
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. Few - literally, 'years of number;' i:e., few, opposed to numberless ( Genesis 34:30 ), "I being few in number")....
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.
When a few years are come. — Literally, years of number, which means either “years than can be easily numbered,” as men of number ( Genesis 34:20 ) is used to express few men; or “years that...
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...
OUR LAST JOURNEY ‘When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.’ Job 16:22 I. Let us realise our inevitable journey . II. Let us contemplate its nearness...
When a few years are come ,.... As the years of man's life are but few at most, and Job's years, which were yet to come, still fewer in his apprehension; or "years of number" m, that are numbered by...
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return. Ver. 22. When a few years are come, &c. ] Heb. Years of number; that is, years that may easily be counted and ca...
When a few years are come The number of years which is determined and appointed to me; then I shall go the way whence I shall not return Namely, to the state and place of the dead, whence men can...
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...
i.e. To the state and place of the dead, whence men do not and cannot return to this life. The meaning is, My death hastens, and therefore I earnestly desire that the cause depending before God betwe...
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...
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. The shortness of human life Doctrine--The coming in of a few new years will set us out of this world, never to retu...
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
Ecclesiastes 12:5 ; Job 14:10 ; Job 14:14 ; Job 14:5 ; Job 7:10 ; Job 7:9
Go — To the state and place of the dead, whence men cannot return to this life. The meaning is, my death hastens, and therefore I earnestly desire that the cause depending, between me and my friend...