1 Kings 21:27; 1 Samuel 2:10; Isaiah 22:12; Job 30:19; Psalms 7:5; Psalms 75:10; Psalms 75:5
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...
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my (p) horn in the dust. (p) Meaning, his glory was brought low.
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...
sewed sackcloth, &c. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the sorrow which accompanied it.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sackcloth ] the sign of mourning. Horn ] the emblem of pride and strength.
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...
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...
(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:...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Grievances of Job. B. C. 1520. 6 Tho...
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...
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
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...
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.