“ But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. ”
But now he hath made me weary - That is, God has exhausted my strength. This verse introduces a new description of his sufferings; and he begins with a statement of the woes that God had brought...
But now (g) he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my (h) company. (g) Meaning, God. (h) That is, destroyed most of my family.
Job 16:6-17 contain a bitter complaint of God's ferocity against Job, in spite of his innocence. The connexion of Job 16:6 with the context is not clear: RV translation is probably, however, co...
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. But now he hath made me weary - The Vulgate translates thus: - Nunc autem oppressit me dolor meus; et in nihilum redacti sunt om...
But now he hath made me weary— For my trouble hath now weakened all my frame, and brought wrinkles over me, Job 16:8 . He is present as a witness, and ariseth against me, who telleth lies conce...
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. But now - truly now. He - God. Company - `all my family,' 'all my band of witnesses,'-namely, those who could att...
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.
But now he hath made me weary. — He turns again, in his passionate plaint, to God, whom he alternately speaks of in the third person and addresses in the second. “Thou hast made desolate all my com...
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...
(7) But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. (8) And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to...
But now he hath made me weary ,.... Or "it hath made me weary" u, that is, "my grief", as it may be supplied from Job 16:6 ; or rather God, as appears from the next clause, and from the following v...
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. Ver. 7. But now he hath made me weary ] i.e. God, whom he acknowledgeth the author of his afflictions; but he should better...
But now he Namely, God; hath made me weary Either of complaining, or of my life. “He hath long since quite tired me with one trouble upon another.” Bishop Patrick. Thou hast made desolate all my...
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...
Grievances of Job. B. C. 1520. 6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though...
But; or, surely , as this Hebrew particle most commonly signifies. He , i.e. God, as appears by the following words and verses. Hath made me weary; either of complaining, or of my life. Thou;...
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...
But now He hath made me weary. Weariness under affliction The word “he” is not in the original. Some understand it of his grief and sorrow, and read thus, “And now it hath made me weary,” or, m...
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...
But now He hath made me weary, God had brought him to the point of utter exhaustion; Thou hast made desolate all my company, his whole family, the loss of which, together with the estrangement of h...
Isaiah 50:4 ; Job 1:15-19 ; Job 10:1 ; Job 29:5-25 ; Job 3:17 ; Job 7:16 ; Job 7:3 ; Micah 6:13 ; Proverbs 3:11 ; Proverbs 3:12 ; Psalms 6:6 ; Psalms 6:7
He — God, as appears by the following words. Weary — Either of complaining, or, of my life. Desolate — Hast turned my society into desolation, by destroying my children and servants.