Ecclesiastes 12:5; Job 14:10; Job 14:14; Job 14:5; Job 7:10; Job 7:9
When a few years are come - Margin “years of number;” that is, numbered years, or a few years. The same idea is expressed in Job 7:21 ; see the...
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...
the way, &c. Figure of speech Euphemism (App-6), for death.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. When a few years are come - I prefer Mr. Good's version: - "But the...
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. Few - literally, 'years of number;' i:e., few, opposed to numbe...
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...
Connected in subject with Job 17:1 ; Job 17:2 . Some by a slight correction read in the first line, 'For the mourning-women shall come.'
When a few years are come. — Literally, years of number, which means either “years than can be easily numbered,” as men of number ( Genesis 34:...
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...
REFLECTIONS READER! while we behold Job bowed down under the very heavy load of sorrow, and hear the complaints issuing from him, as related in this...
OUR LAST JOURNEY ‘When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.’ Job 16:22 I. Let us realise our inevitable...
When a few years are come ,.... As the years of man's life are but few at most, and Job's years, which were yet to come, still fewer in his apprehen...
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return. Ver. 22. When a few years are come, &c. ] Heb. Years of number...
When a few years are come The number of years which is determined and appointed to me; then I shall go the way whence I shall not return Namely,...
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....
i.e. To the state and place of the dead, whence men do not and cannot return to this life. The meaning is, My death hastens, and therefore I earnestl...
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...
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. The shortness of human life Doctrine--The coming in of a few new...
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
When a few years are come, the years which are numbered very carefully, the last ones which remain before death, then I shall go the way whence I sh...
Go — To the state and place of the dead, whence men cannot return to this life. The meaning is, my death hastens, and therefore I earnestly desire...
22 When a fewe years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.