John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 16:1
Then Job answered and said. As soon as Eliphaz had done speaking, Job stood up, and made the following reply. read more
Job 16:1-20:29 Niv
John Gill
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 16:1-2
Then Job answered and said, I have heard many such things . There was nothing new in the second speech of Eliphaz, if we except its increased bitterness. Job had heard all the commonplaces about the universal sinfulness of man, and the invariable connection between sin and suffering, a thousand times before. It was the traditional belief in which he and all those about him had been brought up. But it brought him no relief. The reiteration of it only made him feel that there was neither... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 16:1-6
Job to Eliphaz: 1. Unacceptable comfort and unassuaged grief. I. UNACCEPTABLE COMFORT . Job characterizes the offered consolation of Eliphaz and his companions as: 1 . In its nature common ' place. "I have heard many such things." Not that Job imagined self-evident and obvious maxims could not be true, or objected to a good lesson because it was common, or was himself "one of those nicelings who are always longing for I wet not what novelties, and cannot abide that a man should... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 16:1-22
Deep dejection and irrepressible hope. In this reply Job refuses to make a direct rejoinder to the attack upon him; he is too utterly bowed down in his weakness. But— I. The first part of his speech consists of A BITTER SARCASM UPON THE IDLE TALK OF HIS FRIENDS . (Verses 1-5.) Their speeches are useless. They mean to comfort ( Job 15:11 ); but their reasonings produce an opposite effect on his mind. They should cease; there must he something ailing those who are thus... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 16:1
Job 16:1. Then Job answered and said “Job, above measure grieved that his friends should treat him in this cruel manner, expostulates very tenderly with them on the subject. He tells them he should, in the like circumstances, have behaved to them in a very different way, Job 16:2. That he, as well as every one about him, was in the utmost astonishment, to find a man, whom he imagined his friend, accuse him falsely, and give him worse treatment than even his greatest enemies would have done.... 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 16:1
answered = replied. See note on Job 4:1 . read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 16:1
JOB 16JOB'S FIFTH DISCOURSE:JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ AND THE OTHER "COMFORTERS"Eliphaz had just finished blasting Job with his allegations that, "If Job had been as good as he claimed to be, he would never have had all those troubles. Since the troubles came, they meant, of course, that Job was wicked; and now that he would not even admit it, he was, in addition to everything else, a hardened hypocrite."[1] It is difficult to imagine a more unjust, unfeeling or more evil personal assault upon a... read more
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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 16:1-5
Both Job and his friends took the same way that disputants commonly take, which is to undervalue one another's sense, and wisdom, and management. The longer the saw of contention is drawn the hotter it grows; and the beginning of this sort of strife is as the letting forth of water; therefore leave it off before it be meddled with. Eliphaz had represented Job's discourses as idle, and unprofitable, and nothing to the purpose; and Job here gives his the same character. Those who are free in... read more