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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.
Job Chapter 16 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Job Chapter 16 2 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
2.
(Job 13:4).
Job Chapter 16 3 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
3. "Words of wind," Hebrew. He retorts upon Eliphaz his reproach
(Job 15:2).
emboldeneth--literally, "What wearies you so that ye contradict?" that is, What have I said to provoke you? &c. [SCHUTTENS]. Or, as better accords with the first clause, "Wherefore do ye weary yourselves contradicting?" [UMBREIT].
Job Chapter 16 4 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
4. heap up--rather, "marshal together (an army of) words against you."
shake . . . head--in mockery; it means nodding, rather than shaking; nodding is not with us, as in the East, a gesture of scorn
(Isa 37:22; Jer 18:16; Mt 27:39).
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5. strengthen . . . with . . . mouth--bitter irony. In allusion to Eliphaz' boasted "consolations"
(Job 15:11).
Opposed to strengthening with the heart, that is, with real consolation. Translate, "I also (like you) could strengthen with the mouth," that is, with heartless talk: "And the moving of my lips (mere lip comfort) could console (in the same fashion as you do)" [UMBREIT]. "Hearty counsel"
(Pr 27:9)
is the opposite.
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6. eased--literally, "What (portion of my sufferings) goes from me?"
Job Chapter 16 7 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
7. But now--rather, "ah!"
he--God.
company--rather, "band of witnesses," namely, those who could attest his innocence (his children, servants, &c.). So the same Hebrew is translated in
Job 16:8.
UMBREIT makes his "band of witnesses," himself, for, alas! he had no other witness for him. But this is too recondite.
Job Chapter 16 8 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
8. filled . . . with wrinkles--Rather (as also the same Hebrew word in
Job 22:16;
English Version, "cut down"), "thou hast fettered me, thy witness" (besides cutting off my "band of witnesses,"
Job 16:7),
that is, hast disabled me by pains from properly attesting my innocence. But another "witness" arises against him, namely, his "leanness" or wretched state of body, construed by his friends into a proof of his guilt. The radical meaning of the Hebrew is "to draw together," whence flow the double meaning "to bind" or "fetter," and in Syriac, "to wrinkle."
leanness--meaning also "lie"; implying it was a "false witness."
SECOND SERIES.
Job 16:1-22.
JOB'S REPLY.