Chapter 16
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
heard
6:6,25 11:2,3 13:5 19:2,3 26:2,3 James 1:19
miserable
or, troublesome.
13:4 Psalms 69:26 Philippians 1:16
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
vain words
Heb. words of wind.
what emboldeneth
20:3 32:3-6 Matthew 22:46 Titus 1:11 2:8
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
if your soul
6:2-5,14 Matthew 7:12 Romans 12:15 1 Corinthians 12:26
up words
11:2 35:16 Proverbs 10:19 Ecclesiastes 10:14
shake mine
2 Kings 19:21 Psalms 22:7 44:14 109:25 Jeremiah 18:16 Lamentations 2:15 Matthew 27:39,40
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
But I would
4:3,4 6:14 29:25 Psalms 27:14 Proverbs 27:9,17 Isaiah 35:3,4 Galatians 6:1
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
my grief
what am I eased
Heb. what goeth from me.
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
he hath
3:17 7:3,16 10:1 Psalms 6:6,7 Proverbs 3:11,12 Isaiah 50:4 Micah 6:13
hast made
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
And thou hast, etc
Some render, "thou has fettered me," as kamat signifies in Arabic; but as it signifies in Syriac to be wrinkled, the common version seems, from the connexion, to be more correct; and if Job's disease were the elephantiasis, these words would apply most forcibly to the wrinkled state of the skin in that disorder.
is a witness
10:17 Ruth 1:21 Ephesians 5:27
my leanness
Psalms 106:15 Isaiah 10:16 24:16
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
teareth me
10:16,17 18:4 Psalms 50:22 Lamentations 3:10 Hosea 5:14
he gnasheth
Psalms 35:16 37:12 Lamentations 2:16
mine
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
gaped
Psalms 22:13,16,17 35:21 Luke 23:35,36
they have smitten
1 Kings 22:24 2 Chronicles 18:23 Isaiah 50:6 Lamentations 3:30 Micah 5:1 Matthew 26:67 John 18:22 Acts 23:2 2 Corinthians 11:20
gathered
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
delivered me
Heb. shut me up.
1 Samuel 24:18 *marg:; Psalms 31:8 Romans 11:32 *marg:
to the ungodly
1:13-19 2:7 Psalms 7:14 John 19:16 2 Corinthians 12:7
turned
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
at ease
broken me
4:10 Psalms 44:19 Lamentations 3:4 Matthew 21:44
by my neck
shaken
Lamentations 3:11 Ezekiel 29:7
set me up
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
archers
6:4 Genesis 49:23 Psalms 7:12,13
he cleaveth
doth
6:10 Deuteronomy 29:20 Ezekiel 5:11 Romans 8:32 2 Peter 2:5
poureth
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
breaketh
runneth
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
sewed
defiled my horn
30:19 1 Samuel 2:10 Psalms 7:5 75:5,10
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
face
Psalms 6:6,7 31:9 32:3 69:3 102:3-5,9 Isaiah 52:14 Lamentations 1:16
on my eyelids
17:7 Psalms 116:3 Jonah 2:1-10 Mark 14:34
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Not for
11:14 15:20,34 21:27,28 22:5-9 27:6,7 29:12-17 31:1-40 Psalms 7:3-5 44:17-21
my prayer
8:5,6 Psalms 66:18,19 Proverbs 15:8 1 Timothy 2:8
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
O earth
cover not
Genesis 4:11 Nehemiah 4:5 Isaiah 26:21 Ezekiel 24:7
let my cry
27:9 Psalms 66:18,19 Isaiah 1:15 58:9,10 James 4:3,4
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
my witness
1 Samuel 12:5 Romans 1:9 9:1 2 Corinthians 1:23 11:31 1 Thessalonians 2:10
on high
Heb. in the high places.
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
scorn me
Heb. are my scorners.
poureth
Psalms 109:4 142:2 Hosea 12:4,5 Luke 6:11,12 Hebrews 5:7
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
plead
9:34,35 13:3,22 23:3-7 31:35 40:1-5 Ecclesiastes 6:10 Isaiah 45:9 Romans 9:20
neighbour
or, friend.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
a few years
Heb. years of number.