Job 16:1-3

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 16:2

I have heard many such things ,.... As those Eliphaz has been discoursing of, concerning the punishment of wicked men; many instances of this kind had been reported to him from his preceptors, and from his parents, and which they had had from theirs, as well as Eliphaz had from his; and he had heard these things, or such like, told "many times" from one to another, as Ben Gersom interprets it; or "frequently", as the Vulgate Latin version, yea, he had heard them his friends say many things... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 16:3

Shall vain words have an end ?.... Or "words of wind" F11 לדברי רוח "verbis venti", Beza, Bolducius, Mercerus, Schmidt, Michaelis. , vain empty words, great swelling words of vanity, mere bubbles that look big, and have nothing in them; here Job retorts what Eliphaz had insinuated concerning him and his words, Job 15:2 ; and he intimates such worthless discourses should have an end, and a speedy one, and not be carried on to any length, they not bearing it; and wishes they were... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 16:2

I have heard many such things - These sayings of the ancients are not strange to me; but they do not apply to my case: ye see me in affliction; ye should endeavor to console me. This ye do not; and yet ye pretend to do it! Miserable comforters are ye all. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 16:3

Vain words - Literally, words of air. What emboldeneth thee - Thou art totally ignorant of the business; what then can induce thee to take part in this discussion? read more

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

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

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