Job 16:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. ”

• Job 16:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  I also could speak as ye do - In the same reproachful manner, and stringing together old proverbs and maxims as you have. If your soul were in my soul’s stead - If you were in my place. The i...

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• Job 16:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  I also could speak as ye [do]: if your (c) soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and (d) shake mine head at you. (c) I would that you felt what I do. (d) That is, mock at...

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• Job 16:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 16:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  your soul . you (emph.) Hebrew. nephesh. App-13. my soul . me (emph.) Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.

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• Job 16:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  I also could speak as ye do : if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. I also could speak - It is probably better to render some of these...

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• Job 16:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  I also could speak, &c.— I also could speak as well as you: if your soul were in my soul's stead, would I accumulate sentences against you? would I shake my head at you? Heath. The rendering...

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• Job 16:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. If your soul were in my souls stead - if you were in my place...

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• Job 16:4 - 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 16:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  If your soul. — i.e., person=“ If you were in my place, I could heap up words,” &c. It is doubtful whether this is in contrast to what comes afterwards in the fifth verse, as in the Authorise...

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• Job 16:4 - 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 16:4 - 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 16:4 - 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 16:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (3) Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? (4) I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake min...

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• Job 16:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  I also could speak as ye [do] ,.... As big words, with as high a tone, with as stiff a neck, and as haughtily and loftily; or "ought I to speak as you do" m? that I ought not, nor would you think I...

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• Job 16:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. Ver. 4. I also could speak as you do, &c. ] Every whit as cu...

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• Job 16:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  I could also speak as ye do It is an easy thing to trample upon those that are down, and to find fault with what those say who are in extremity of pain and affliction. If your soul were in my soul...

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• Job 16:4 - 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 16:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520.       1 Then Job answered and said,   2 I have heard...

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• Job 16:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  If your soul , i.e. your person, as Genesis 12:5 . I could heap up words against you, i.e. I could multiply accusations and reproaches against you, as you do against me. Shake mine head at yo...

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• Job 16:4 - 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 16:4 - 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 16:4 - 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 16:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Complains of the Unmerciful Attitude of his Friends

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• Job 16:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 12:26 ; 2 Kings 19:21 ; Ecclesiastes 10:14 ; Jeremiah 18:16 ; Job 11:2 ; Job 35:16 ; Job 6:14 ; Job 6:2-5 ; Lamentations 2:15 ; Matthew 27:39 ; Matthew 27:40 ; Matthew 7:12...

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