John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 16:11
God hath delivered me up to the ungodly ,.... The evil or wicked one, for it is in the singular number; and designs either Satan, into whose hands God had not only delivered his substance, but his person, excepting his life; though it may be, and which is an objection to this sense, Job as yet knew it not; or else Eliphaz, or, the singular number being put for the plural, as the next clause explains it, all his friends, whom he in turn calls evil and wicked men, because of their treatment of... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 16:6-16
Job's complaint is here as bitter as any where in all his discourses, and he is at a stand whether to smother it or to give it vent. Sometimes the one and sometimes the other is a relief to the afflicted, according as the temper or the circumstances are; but Job found help by neither, Job 16:6. 1. Sometimes giving vent to grief gives ease; but, ?Though I speak? (says Job), ?my grief is not assuaged, my spirit is never the lighter for the pouring out of my complaint; nay, what I speak is so... read more