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Job 16

Clinging to a Counterfeit Cross
Introduction

1  Job reproves his friends for unmercifulness.
17  He maintains his innocency.
Verse 2

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
Verse 3

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
Verse 4

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
Verse 5

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
Verse 6

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.
Verse 7

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
Verse 8

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
Verse 9

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
Verse 10

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
Verse 11

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
Verse 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
Verse 13

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
Verse 14

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
Verse 15

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
Verse 16

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
Verse 17

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
Verse 18

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
Verse 19

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
Verse 20

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
Verse 21

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.
Verse 22

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

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