Job 16:15

I have sewed sackcloth— The meaning of this verse is, I have sewn sackcloth (in token of grief) over my torn skin, and have defiled my head, my horn, or honour, with ashes. See Schultens and Heath.

Related Commentaries of Job 16:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have sewed sackcloth - I have put on the badges of humiliation and grief; see the notes at Isaiah 3:24 . This was the usual emblem of mourning...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my (p) horn in the dust. (p) Meaning, his glory was brought low.
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

sewed sackcloth, &c. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the sorrow which accompanied it.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. I have sewed sackcloth - שק sak, a word that has passed into almost all languag...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. Sewed - denoting the tight fit of the mourning garment: it was a sack w...
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 'comfor...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Sackcloth ] the sign of mourning. Horn ] the emblem of pride and strength.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin. — Referring, probably, to the state of his skin, which had become hard and rugged as sackcloth. As the second...
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...
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...
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 sen...
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:...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin ,.... Which he very probably put on when he rent his mantle, or sat in ashes, Job 1:20 ; which actions were usu...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. Ver. 15. I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin ] Not silks, but sackcloth, is...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin I have put on sackcloth, not upon my other garments, but next to my skin; as was done in great calamities. So f...
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,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Grievances of Job. B. C. 1520. 6 Tho...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. I put on sackcloth sewed together, not upon my other garments, but next to my skin, as was done in great calamities; as 2 Kings 6:30 . So far...
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 fro...
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 . S...
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 t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Shows The Pitifulness of his Case and Maintains his Innocence
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, stitching it about his loins as a garment of mourning, and defiled my horn in the dust, all his power and dign...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 21:27 ; 1 Samuel 2:10 ; Isaiah 22:12 ; Job 30:19 ; Psalms 7:5 ; Psalms 75:10 ; Psalms 75:5
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I have — So far am I from stretching out my hand against God, Job 15:25 , that I have humbled myself deeply under his hand. I have not only put on...

¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

Related Commentaries of Job 16:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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 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 16:15