Job 16:20

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. My friends scorn me - They deride and insult me, but my eye is towards God; I look to him to vindicate my cause.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My friends scorn me - Margin “are my scorners.” That is, his friends had him in derision and mocked him, and he could only appeal with tears to G...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

My friends (u) scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God. (u) Use painted words instead of true consolation.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job cries to the avenger of blood to avenge his innocence. He is a martyr, and feels that his blood must cry for vengeance ( Genesis 4:10 *, Revela...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

friends . neighbours. GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. Hebrew, more forcibly, 'my mockers-my friends!' A heart-cutting paradox! (Umbrei...
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

My friends scorn me. — Or, as an apostrophe, “Ye my scorners who profess and ought to be my friends: mine eye poureth out tears unto God that He wo...
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

(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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

My friends scorn me ,.... Not that they scoffed at his afflictions and calamities, and at his diseases and disorders, that would have been very brut...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God. Ver. 20. My friends scorn me ] Or, play the rhetoricians against me. David likew...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Behold, my witness is in heaven Besides the witness of men, and of my own conscience, God is witness of my integrity. The witness of men, and even...
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

Testimony of Conscience; Job's Comfort in Conscious Integrity. B. C. 1520....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

My friends, who should defend me from the scorns and injuries of others, scorn me; so this word is used Psalms 119:51 Proverbs 3:34 , Prover...
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

My friends scorn me, literally, "although mockers of me my friends"; but mine eye poureth out tears unto God, directing his tearful entreaty to the...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 5:7 ; Hosea 12:4 ; Hosea 12:5 ; Job 12:4 ; Job 12:5 ; Job 16:4 ; Job 17:2 ; Luke 6:11 ; Luke 6:12 ; Psalms 109:4 ; Psalms 142:2

²⁰ My friends scorn me: but mine eyed poureth out tears unto God.

Related Commentaries of Job 16:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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

Job 16:20