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Matthew Henry

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 16:7

But now he hath made me weary ,.... Or "it hath made me weary" F21 "Dolor meus", V. L. so Aben Ezra & Cocceius. , that is, "my grief", as it may be supplied from Job 16:6 ; or rather God, as appears from the next clause, and from the following verse, where he is manifestly addressed; who by afflicting him had made him weary of the world, and all things in it, even of his very life, Job 10:1 ; his afflictions were so heavy upon him, and pressed him so hard, that his life was a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 16:8

And thou hast filled me with wrinkles ,.... Not through old age, but through affliction, which had sunk his flesh, and made furrows in him, so that he looked older than he was, and was made old thereby before his time; see Lamentations 3:4 ; for this is to be understood of his body, for as for his soul, that through the grace of God, and righteousness of Christ, was without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing: which is a witness against me ; as it was improved by his friends, who... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 16:9

He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me ,.... By whom is meant not Satan, as Jarchi, though he is an enemy to, and an hater of mankind, especially of good men; nor Eliphaz, as others, who had fallen upon Job with a great deal of wrath and fury, tearing his character in pieces, which Job attributed to his hatred of him; but it rather appears from the context that God himself is intended, of whom Job had now a mistaken notion and apprehension; taking him for his enemy, being treated by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 16:10

They have gaped upon me with their mouth ,.... Here Job speaks of the instruments which God suffered to use him ill; and he has respect to his friends who came with open mouth against him, loading him with calumnies and reproaches, laying charges to him he was not conscious of, and treating him with scorn and contempt, which such a gesture is sometimes a token of, Lamentations 3:46 ; and in which manner also Christ was used by men, on whom the reproach of them that reproached God and his... read more

John Gill

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 16:12

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder ,.... He was in easy and affluent circumstances, abounding with the good things of this life, lay in his nest, as his expression is, Job 29:18 ; quietly and peaceably, where he expected he should have died; and he was easy in his mind, had peace of conscience, being a good man that feared God, and trusted in his living Redeemer, enjoying the presence of God, the light of his countenance, and the discoveries of his love, see Job 39:2 ; but now... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 16:14

He breaketh me with breach upon breach ,.... Upon his substance, his family, and the health of his body, which came thick and fast, one after another; referring to the report of those things brought by one messenger upon the back of another, see Ezekiel 7:26 ; he runneth upon me like a giant ; with great fury and fierceness, with great strength and courage, with great speed and swiftness, causing great terror and distress; he not being able to resist him, any more than a dwarf a giant,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 16:7

But now he hath made me weary - The Vulgate translates thus: - Nunc autem oppressit me dolor meus; et in nihilum redacti sunt omnes artus mei ; "But now my grief oppresses me, and all my joints are reduced to nothing." Perhaps Job alluded here to his own afflictions, and the desolation of his family. Thou hast made me weary with continual affliction; my strength is quite exhausted; and thou hast made desolate all my company, not leaving me a single child to continue my name, or to comfort... read more

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