Job 16:10

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They have gaped upon me - Changing the form from the singular to the plural, and including “all” his pretended friends. Such a change in the numb...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the (l) cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me....
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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

They have gathered themselves together against me— They are ready to burst with fury against me. Heath. They have unanimously satiated their wra...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me....
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...
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

They have gaped upon me with their mouth ,.... Here Job speaks of the instruments which God suffered to use him ill; and he has respect to his frien...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. Ver...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They My friends, the instruments of God's anger; have gaped upon me with their mouth Have opened their mouths wide against me; either, 1st, To de...
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

They; the instruments of God's anger, my friends, as they are falsely called. Gaped upon me with their mouth; opened their mouths wide against me...
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

They, the enemies of Job among men, have gaped upon me with their mouth, in a gesture of insolent mockery; they have smitten me upon the cheek rep...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 22:24 ; 2 Chronicles 18:23 ; 2 Corinthians 11:20 ; Acts 23:2 ; Acts 4:27 ; Isaiah 50:6 ; John 18:22 ; Lamentations 3:30 ; Luke 23:35...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 predic...

¹⁰ They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

Related Commentaries of Job 16:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the 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 16:10