“ He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetimec I was as a tabret. ”
He hath also - That is, God has done this. Also a by-word - A proverb ( משׁל mâshâl ); a term of reproach, ridicule, or scorn. lie has exposed me to derision. And aforetime - Margin “...
He hath made me also a (g) byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. (g) God has made all the world speak of me, because of my afflictions.
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...
aforetime . in former times. Compare Ruth 4:7 , tabret . a drum. Hebrew. topheth. To the sound and warning of which people gave heed. See note on 1 Samuel 10:5 . After this verse imagine. paus...
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. He hath made me also a by-word - My afflictions and calamities have become a subject of general conversation, so that my...
He hath made me also a by-word— But they have marked me out for a by-word of the people; nay, I am even a prodigy in their sight. Heath.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. He - God. The poet reverentially suppresses the name of God when speaking of calamities inflicted. Byword - (...
Job's Fourth Speech (concluded) 1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises of restoration in the...
He ( i.e., God) hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. — Or, I am become as a tabret, or drum openly, i.e., a signal of warning. “My case will be fraugh...
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...
“The Bars of Sheol” Job 17:1-16 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1-9 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks t...
Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterabl...
(4) For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. (5) He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. (6) He hath made me...
He hath made me also a byword of the people ,.... Either Eliphaz, or God; for whatsoever befell him, whether more immediately by the hand of God, or by any instrument, the ascribes it to him, as bei...
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. Ver. 6. He hath made me also a byword of the people ] Here Job returns to his old task of setting forth his own misery...
He That is, God, who is generally designed by this pronoun in this book; hath made me also a by-word of the people Or, a proverb, or subject of common talk. My miseries are so great and unprecede...
Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...
Deplorable Condition of Job; The Improvement of Job's Troubles. B. C. 1520. 1 My breath...
He, i.e. God, who is oft designed by this pronoun in this book. A by-word, or proverb , or common talk . My calamities are so great and prodigious, that they fill all people with discourse, and...
CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Bemoans his dying condition ( Job 17:1 ). “My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished,...
Job 17:1 . My breath is corrupt. Schultens reads, corruptus est spiritus meus: “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye we...
EXPOSITION Job 17:1-18 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1-18 . It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment b...
Job Complains of his Weakness
1 Kings 9:7 ; Genesis 31:27 ; Isaiah 5:12 ; Job 30:9 ; Psalms 44:14