Job 16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments
  • Job 16:2 open_in_new

    Such things — These things are but vulgar and trivial. And so are all creatures, to a soul under deep conviction of sin, or the arrest of death.

  • Job 16:7 open_in_new

    He — God, as appears by the following words. Weary — Either of complaining, or, of my life. Desolate — Hast turned my society into desolation, by destroying my children and servants.

  • Job 16:10 open_in_new

    They — My friends. Gaped — Opened their mouths wide against me. In all this Job was a type of Christ. These very expressions are used in the predictions of his sufferings, Psalms 22:13. They gaped upon me with their mouths, and Micah 5:1. They shall smite the judge of Israel upon the check.

  • Job 16:11 open_in_new

    The wicked — And thus Christ was delivered into wicked hands, by the determinate counsel of God.

  • Job 16:12 open_in_new

    Shaken — As a mighty man doth with some stripling, when he wrestleth with him. Mark — That he may shoot all his arrows in me.

  • Job 16:13 open_in_new

    His archers — Whoever are our enemies, we must look on them as God's archers, and see him directing the arrow.

  • Job 16:15 open_in_new

    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 sackcloth, but sewed it on, as being resolved to continue my humiliation, as long as my affliction continues. Defiled my horn — I have willingly parted with all my wealth, and power, and glory (as the horn often signifies in scripture,) and been content to lie in the dust.

  • Job 16:17 open_in_new

    Not — And all this is not come upon me for any injurious dealing, but for other reasons known to God only. Pure — I do not cast off God's fear and service, Job 15:4. I do still pray and worship God, and my prayer is accompanied with a sincere heart.

  • Job 16:18 open_in_new

    Earth — The earth is said to cover that blood, which lies undiscovered and unrevenged: but saith Job, if I be guilty of destroying any man, let the earth disclose it; let it be brought to light. Cry — Let the cry of my complaints to men, or prayers to God, find no place in the ears or hearts of God or men, if this be true.

  • Job 16:22 open_in_new

    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 that the cause depending, between me and my friends, may be determined, that if I be guilty of these things, I may bear the shame of it before all men, and if I be innocent, that I may see my own integrity, and the credit of religion, (which suffers upon this occasion) vindicated. How very certainly, and how very shortly are we likewise to go this journey.