约伯记 16:17-21 CUNPSS

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 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

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 16:19

19. Also now—Even now, when I am so greatly misunderstood on earth, God in heaven is sensible of my innocence. record—Hebrew, "in the high places"; Hebrew, "my witness." Amidst all his impatience, Job still trusts in God. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 16:20

20. Hebrew, "are my scorners"; more forcibly, "my mockers—my friends!" A heart-cutting paradox [UMBREIT]. God alone remains to whom he can look for attestation of his innocence; plaintively with tearful eye, he supplicates for this. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 16:21

21. one—rather, "He" (God). "Oh, that He would plead for a man (namely, me) against God." Job quaintly says, "God must support me against God; for He makes me to suffer, and He alone knows me to be innocent" [UMBREIT]. So God helped Jacob in wrestling against Himself (compare Job 23:6; Genesis 32:25). God in Jesus Christ does plead with God for man (Romans 8:26; Romans 8:27). as a man—literally, "the Son of man." A prefiguring of the advocacy of Jesus Christ—a boon longed for by Job (Romans... 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

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

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

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

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

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 16:19

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 16:20

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 16:21

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

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

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