Job 16:13 NIV

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 16:13

His archers compass me round about ,.... Satan and his principalities and powers casting their fiery darts at him; or rather, his friends shooting their arrows, even bitter words, reproaches, and calumnies; or the various diseases of his body, his boils and ulcers, which were so many arrows shot into him, in every part of him all around, and gave him exquisite pain and anguish; besides the arrows of the Almighty, or that painful sensation he had of the wrath of God. This also is true of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 16:13

His archers compass me - רביו rabbaiv "his great ones." The Vulgate and Septuagint translate this his spears; the Syriac, Arabic, and Chaldee, his arrows. On this and the following verse Mr. Heath observes: "The metaphor is here taken from huntsmen: first, they surround the beast; then he is shot dead; his entrails are next taken out; and then his body is broken up limb by limb." read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 16:1-22

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 16:7-17

Job to God: resumption of the third controversy: 1. The sorrows of a weary man. I. DIVINELY SENT . Whether directly addressed in the second person (verses 7, 8), or indirectly alluded to in the third (verses 7, 9, 12, 14), it is ever God to whom Job traces back his sufferings. It is faith's function, as well as faith's delight, to recognize God's hand in affliction as in felicity; but not seldom sense intervenes to misconstrue the end and motive of God's dealings with the saint, and to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 16:11-17

The severity of the Divine judgments. The mystery of the Divine dealings is revealed in this book. The view from a human standpoint is given. Job and his friends see not the spiritual side of the whole transaction. The Divine purpose is hidden. Job knows not that it is "Satan" that has instigated all these afflictions. He knows not that God has given permission for his trial. Nor does he know the limitations put upon that trial, nor the final issue. The severity of the Divine judgments (so... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 16:13

His archers compass me round about . God is represented, not as himself the shooter of the arrows, but as surrounding Job with a body of archers, who are under his command and carry out his will. So, generally, Scripture represents the judgments of God as carried out by interior agents (see 2 Samuel 24:16 ; 1 Chronicles 21:15 ; 2 Kings 19:35 , etc.). He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare . The allusion is probably to Job's physical sufferings, which included severe pains... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 16:13

His archers - He does not come alone to shoot at me; he has employed a company of bowmen, who also direct “their” arrows against me. The word used here רב rab means properly “much, large,” great; and is applied to that which is powerful or mighty. It is nowhere else used in the sense of “archers,” and might be rendered “his many;” that is, his bands, hosts, or armies. But as all the ancient versions render it “arrows,” or “archers,” probably that sense is to be retained. Allusion is here made... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 16:13-14

Job 16:13-14. His archers compass me round about His plagues or judgments, elsewhere compared to arrows, and here to archers, surround me on all sides, and assault me from every quarter. Whoever are our enemies, we must look on them as God’s archers, and see him directing the arrow. He cleaveth my reins asunder He wounds me inwardly, mortally, and incurably; which is also signified by pouring out the gall; such wounds being deadly. “The metaphor,” says Heath, “is here taken from... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 16:6-16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 16:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 16:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 16:1-22

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 16:1-22

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 16:7-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 16:11-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 16:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 16:13

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 16:13-14

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