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.