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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 16:18

O. Figure of speech Ecphonesis. App-6 . cover not. my blood. The reference is to the practice which remains to this day, based on Numbers 35:33 .Leviticus 17:13 . Job's desire is that the evidence of his sufferings may not be hidden. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 16:18

JOB TRUSTS THAT HE HAS AN ADVOCATE IN HEAVEN"O earth, cover not thou my blood,And let my cry have no resting place.Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,And he that voucheth for me is on high.My friends scoff at me;But mine eye poureth out tears unto God.That he would maintain the right of a man with God,And of a son of man with his neighbor!For when a few years are come,I shall go the way whence I shall not return."Here we have a sudden burst of inspiration. Yes, indeed, "We have an... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 16:18

Job 16:18. O earth, cover not thou my blood, &c.— O earth! cover not thou my blood, lest there be no place for my cry! Job 16:19. Yea, even now my witness is in heaven; and He who is conscious of my actions is on high: Job 16:20. My thought is my interpreter with God; mine eye is dropping before him: Job 16:21. Is it for man to dispute with God, as a man disputeth with his neighbour? Houbigant. Heath renders the 21st verse, Oh that it might plead, &c.! meaning the dropping eye, the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 16:18

18. my blood—that is, my undeserved suffering. He compares himself to one murdered, whose blood the earth refuses to drink up until he is avenged (Genesis 4:10; Genesis 4:11; Ezekiel 24:1; Ezekiel 24:8; Isaiah 26:21). The Arabs say that the dew of heaven will not descend on a spot watered with innocent blood (compare Isaiah 26:21- :). no place—no resting-place. "May my cry never stop!" May it go abroad! "Earth" in this verse in antithesis to "heaven" (Job 16:19). May my innocence be as... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 16:1-22

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 ’comfort’ if he were in the friends’ place.2. The friends can do nothing but repeat their exasperating commonplaces. 3. Shall vain words, etc.] i.e. ’will you never stop?’5. Job would have acted very differently (Job 4:3-4; Job 29), giving no mere lip-comfort.6-17. Job enlarges on the wrath of God and the enmity of man. Neither speech nor silence brings him... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 16:18

(18) Let my cry have no place.—That is, “Let there be no place in the wide earth where my cry shall not reach: let it have no resting place: let it fill the whole wide earth.” read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 16:1-22

Job 16:2 In no respect was Mrs. Grote's knowledge of the human heart more apparent than in her intercourse with a mariner. With the unfailing freshness she put into all she said, she called herself 'a good affliction woman'. In the first place she admitted the reality of the trial, without which no one attempting to help no matter in what can be either just or kind. Then she dealt in no commonplaces on any subject in the world, least of all on that of deep grief. She knew that nothing could... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 16:1-22

XIV."MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN"Job 16:1-22; Job 17:1-16Job SPEAKSIF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying terms, then Job should have been comforted. But his friends had lost sight of their errand, and he had to recall them to it."I have heard many such things: Afflictive comforters are ye all. Shall vain words have an end?"He would have them consider that perpetual harping on one string is but a sober... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Job 16:1-22

CHAPTERS 16-17 Job’s Reply to Eliphaz 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1-5 ) 2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6-14 ) 3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15-22 ) 4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pity (Job 17:1-12 ) 5. Where is now my hope? (Job 17:13-16 ) Job 16:1-5 . How masterfully he meets their wrong accusations and how he brings forth his suffering afresh, yet always with that horrible nightmare, God is not for me, but against me! Such things Eliphaz spoke he had heard... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 16:18

16:18 O earth, cover not thou my {s} blood, and let my cry have no place.(s) Let my sin be known if I am such a sinner as my adversaries accuse me, and let me find no favour. read more