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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Job 16

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.

6:26 8:2 15:2

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

10:1 Psalms 77:1-9 88:15-18

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

1:15-19 29:5-25

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

13:24,27 19:11 Micah 7:8

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

Psalms 35:15 94:21 Acts 4:27

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

Psalms 27:12

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

1:2,3 3:26 29:3,18,19

broken me

4:10 Psalms 44:19 Lamentations 3:4 Matthew 21:44

by my neck

15:26 Romans 16:4

shaken

Lamentations 3:11 Ezekiel 29:7

set me up

7:12,20 Lamentations 3:12

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

19:27 Lamentations 3:13

doth

6:10 Deuteronomy 29:20 Ezekiel 5:11 Romans 8:32 2 Peter 2:5

poureth

20:25 Lamentations 2:11

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

breaketh

Lamentations 3:3-5

runneth

Judges 15:8 Psalms 42:7

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

sewed

1 Kings 21:27 Isaiah 22:12

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

Jeremiah 22:29

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.

25:2 Psalms 113:5

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

scorn me

Heb. are my scorners.

4 12:4,5 17:2

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.

14:5,14

whence

7:9,10 14:10 Ecclesiastes 12:5