Job 16:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 16:17

Not for any injustice ... - Still claiming that he does not deserve his sorrows, and that these calamities had not come upon him on account of any enormous sins, as his friends believed.My prayer is pure - My devotion; my worship of God is not hypocritical - as my friends maintain. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 16:17-18

Job 16:17-18 . Not for any justice in my hands And all this is not come upon me for any injurious dealing, but for other reasons, known to God only; also my prayer is pure I do not cast off God’s fear and service, Job 15:4. I do still pray and worship God, and my prayer is accompanied with a sincere heart. O earth, cover not thou my blood The earth is said to cover that blood which lies undiscovered and unrevenged: of which see on Genesis 4:10-11; and Isaiah 26:21. But, says Job, if I... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 16:1-22

Job’s reply to Eliphaz (16:1-17:16)Tired at this repetition of the friends’ unhelpful teaching, Job says he could give similar ‘comfort’ if he were in their position and they in his (16:1-5). His argument with God may not have brought relief from his pain, but neither has his silence. In fact, his physical condition only becomes worse (6-8). God opposes him and people insult him. Some deliberately try to do him harm (9-11). He feels like a helpless victim that wild animals attack, like a target... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 16:17

injustice = violence. Only occurrence of English word in O.T. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 16:17

Job 16:17. Not for any injustice, &c.— Although there is not iniquity in my hands; although my prayers are pure before God. Houbigant. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 16:6-17

Job’s distress at God’s hand 16:6-17Job’s friends did not cause his greatest discomfort, however; from Job’s perspective God did. Most of the verses in this pericope are easy to understand. A better translation of Job 16:6 b might be, "And if I hold back, it does not leave me.""Job’s assumption that God was angry with him [in Job 16:9] implies that Job subconsciously felt that God was punishing him for some unknown sin of which Job was unaware. He wished that God would reveal this to him (Job... 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 16:17

(17) Not for any injustice.—Literally, for no injustice, just as in Isaiah 53:9 : “because he had done no violence,” should be “not because he had done any violence, or because deceit was in his mouth.” 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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 16:17

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 16:17-18

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 16:1-22

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 16:17

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 16:17

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 16:6-17

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 16:17

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

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

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