Job 5:16

Iniquity stoppeth her mouth. — See Psalms 107:42, where the same phrase occurs.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 2:8 ; 1 Samuel 2:9 ; Exodus 11:7 ; Isaiah 14:32 ; Psalms 107:42 ; Psalms 63:11 ; Psalms 9:18 ; Romans 3:19 ; Zechariah 9:12
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

So — So he obtains what he hoped for from God, to whom he committed his cause. Iniquity — Wicked men. Stoppeth — They are silenced and confounded,...

¹⁶ So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

Related Commentaries of Job 5:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 5:16