Job 15:16

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 15:16

Job 15:16. How much more abominable and filthy is man If saints are not to be trusted, much less sinners. If the heavens are not pure; if heavenly beings, who maintained their allegiance to their Maker, are not free from imperfection, when compared with God, much less is man, who is degenerated, and has rebelled against him. Which drinketh iniquity like water Who, besides his natural proneness to sin, has contracted habits of sinning; and sins as freely, as greedily, and delightfully, as... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 15:1-35

15:1-21:34 SECOND ROUND OF ARGUMENTEliphaz speaks (15:1-35)The three friends are offended that their collective wisdom has not humbled Job as they had hoped. They are angered that Job continues to argue with God. Therefore, in this the second round of argument they emphasize the terrors of God’s judgment, hoping that this might bring Job to repentance.Eliphaz, the least aggressive of the three, leads off again, though clearly even he is angered and offended at Job’s speech. Job claims to be a... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 15:16

16. filthy—in Arabic "sour" (Psalms 14:3; Psalms 53:3), corrupted from his original purity. drinketh— (Psalms 53:3- :). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 15:1-16

Job’s attitude rebuked 15:1-16Specifically, Eliphaz accused Job of speaking irreverently (Job 15:1-6) and of pretending to be wiser and purer than he was (Job 15:7-16). For a second time one of his friends said Job was full of hot air (Job 15:2-3; cf. Job 8:2). The east wind (Job 15:2) was the dreaded sirocco that blew in destruction from the Arabian Desert."Eliphaz was using one of the oldest tactics in debate-if you can’t refute your opponent’s arguments, attack his words and make them sound... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 15:1-34

C. The Second Cycle of Speeches between Job and His Three Friends chs. 15-21In the second cycle of speeches, Job’s companions did not change their minds about why Job was suffering and the larger issue of the basis of the divine-human relationship. They continued to hold the dogma of retribution: that God without exception blesses good people and punishes bad people in this life. Galatians 6:7 says, "Whatever a man sows, this he will also reap." However, it is wrong to conclude that we will... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 15:1-35

1. Eliphaz’s second speech ch. 15Job’s responses so far had evidently convinced Eliphaz that Job was a hardened sinner in defiant rebellion against God. [Note: Pope, p. 114.] "There is a great change in tone between this address of Eliphaz and the first. There is no tenderness here. The philosophy of life is stated wholly on the negative side, and it was impossible for Job to misunderstand the meaning." [Note: Morgan, p. 208.] read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 15:1-34

The Second Series of Speeches (Job 15-21)The rejection by Job of the opinions and advice of the friends, his sturdy maintenance of his innocence, and the fearlessness with which in his anguish he has arraigned the divine government of the world, have all alike deepened their conviction of his guilt. Without actually charging Job with definite sin, for which indeed they have no ground, they now administer stern rebukes, and draw terrible pictures of the certain misery which awaits the godless,... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 15:1-35

The Second Speech of Eliphaz1-16. Eliphaz accuses Job of impiety and arrogance.2. And fill, etc] utter idle, empty remarks.7. It was a popular idea that there was a primeval man endowed with perfect wisdom, corresponding to the figure of the Divine Wisdom in Proverbs 8. 8. Render, ’Didst thou hearken in the council of God?’ i.e. before the creation of the world. 10. Eliphaz, perhaps, refers here to himself.11. RV ’Are the consolations of God too small for thee, and the word that dealeth gently... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 15:16

(16) How much more abominable and filthy is man . . .—This strong language, thus couched in general terms, is doubtless intended to reflect on Job, otherwise it would not need to have been so strong. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 15:1-35

Humbling Questions Job 15:7 I. 'Art thou the first man that was born?' There must have been a first man. He might possibly have had some measure of independence from a merely superficial view of himself, but he had no real independence, he was part of the next man that was coming, and thus we belong to posterity as well as ancestry, and we hand on the life which we have often stained and spoiled. If I am not the first man that was born, if I am not the only man, then it follows that I must... read more

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