Job 16:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. ”

• Job 16:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  He teareth me in his wrath - The language here is all taken from the ferocity of wild beasts; and the idea is, that his enemy had come upon him as a lion seizes upon its prey. Rosenmuller, Reiske...

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• Job 16:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (k) He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. (k) That is, God by his wrath: and in this diversity of words and high st...

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• Job 16:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 16:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. He teareth me in his wrath - Who the person is that is spoken of in this verse...

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• Job 16:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  He teareth me in his wrath, &c.— His fury rend-eth me, and he teareth me to pieces. Heath; who remarks, that the metaphor is taken from a beast of prey, who rends and tears his booty in piece...

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• Job 16:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. Image from a wild beast. So God is represented ( Job 10:16 ). Who hate...

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• Job 16:9 - 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 16:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  He teareth me in his wrath. — Terrible as the language is that Job has used against God, he seems here almost to exceed it, for he calls Him his adversary. It is hardly possible not to understand t...

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• Job 16:9 - 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 16:9 - 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 16:9 - 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 16:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 16:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me ,.... By whom is meant not Satan, as Jarchi, though he is an enemy to, and an hater of mankind, especially of good men; nor Eliphaz, as others, who had fa...

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• Job 16:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. Ver. 9. He teareth me in his wrath, &c. ] Who did all this to Job? The...

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• Job 16:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He teareth me in his wrath Hebrew, אפו שׂר, appo tarap, His wrath teareth me in pieces , properly, as a lion or other savage beast tears his prey, of which the word tarap is peculiarly used; wh...

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• Job 16:9 - 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 16:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Grievances of Job. B. C. 1520.       6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though...

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• Job 16:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He teareth me in his wrath, Heb. his wrath teareth me in pieces , as a lion doth his prey. Who hateth me, Heb. and he hateth me , i.e. he pursueth me with a deadly hatred and rage. Or, and he...

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• Job 16:9 - 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 16:9 - 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 16:9 - 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 16:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Shows The Pitifulness of his Case and Maintains his Innocence

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• Job 16:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Hosea 5:14 ; Job 10:16 ; Job 10:17 ; Job 13:24 ; Job 13:27 ; Job 18:4 ; Job 19:11 ; Lamentations 2:16 ; Lamentations 3:10 ; Micah 7:8 ; Psalms 35:16 ; Psalms 37:12 ; Psalms 50:22

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• Job 16:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Eyes — Looks upon me with a fierce, and sparkling eye, as enraged persons use to do.

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