friends. neighbours.
GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4.
My friends scorn me - Margin “are my scorners.” That is, his friends had him in derision and mocked him, and he could only appeal with tears to G...
My friends (u) scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God. (u) Use painted words instead of true consolation.
Job cries to the avenger of blood to avenge his innocence. He is a martyr, and feels that his blood must cry for vengeance ( Genesis 4:10 *, Revela...
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. My friends scorn me - They deride and insult me, but my eye is towards God; I look...
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. Hebrew, more forcibly, 'my mockers-my friends!' A heart-cutting paradox! (Umbrei...
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 'comfor...
My friends scorn me. — Or, as an apostrophe, “Ye my scorners who profess and ought to be my friends: mine eye poureth out tears unto God that He wo...
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...
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...
Job immediately answered. His answer dealt less with the argument they suggested than before. While the darkness was still about him, and in some sen...
(19) Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. (20) My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. (21) O t...
My friends scorn me ,.... Not that they scoffed at his afflictions and calamities, and at his diseases and disorders, that would have been very brut...
My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God. Ver. 20. My friends scorn me ] Or, play the rhetoricians against me. David likew...
Behold, my witness is in heaven Besides the witness of men, and of my own conscience, God is witness of my integrity. The witness of men, and even...
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,...
Testimony of Conscience; Job's Comfort in Conscious Integrity. B. C. 1520....
My friends, who should defend me from the scorns and injuries of others, scorn me; so this word is used Psalms 119:51 Proverbs 3:34 , Prover...
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 fro...
Job 16:2 . Miserable comforters are ye all. The Vulgate, “burdensome comforters,” who afflicted instead of consoling their friend. Job 16:3 . S...
EXPOSITION Job answers the second speech of Eliphaz in a discourse which occupies two (short) chapters, and is thus not much more lengthy than t...
Job Shows The Pitifulness of his Case and Maintains his Innocence
My friends scorn me, literally, "although mockers of me my friends"; but mine eye poureth out tears unto God, directing his tearful entreaty to the...
Hebrews 5:7 ; Hosea 12:4 ; Hosea 12:5 ; Job 12:4 ; Job 12:5 ; Job 16:4 ; Job 17:2 ; Luke 6:11 ; Luke 6:12 ; Psalms 109:4 ; Psalms 142:2
20 My friends scorn me: but mine eyed poureth out tears unto God.