Job 16
1 Job reproves his friends for unmercifulness.
17 He maintains his innocency.
heard <08085> [heard.]
miserable <05999> [miserable. or, troublesome.]
windy words <01697 07307> [vain words. Heb. words of wind.]
provokes <04834> [what emboldeneth.]
if ..... my ..... pile <05315 03863> [if your soul.]
pile ... words <04405 02266> [up words.]
head <05128 07218> [shake mine.]
strengthen <0553> [But I would.]
pain <03511> [my grief.]
goes away <01980> [what am I eased. Heb. what goeth from me.]
worn <03811> [he hath.]
devastated <08074> [hast made.]
seized <07059> [And thou hast, etc.]
Some render, "thou has fettered me," as {kamat} signifies in Arabic; but as it signifies in Syriac to be wrinkled, the common version seems, from the connexion, to be more correct; and if Job's disease were the elephantiasis, these words would apply most forcibly to the wrinkled state of the skin in that disorder.
witness <05707> [is a witness.]
leanness <03585> [my leanness.]
anger ... torn <02963 0639> [teareth me.]
gnashed <02786> [he gnasheth.]
adversary <06862> [mine.]
opened <06473> [gaped.]
struck <05221> [they have smitten.]
unite <04390> [gathered.]
abandons .... evil men <05462 05760> [delivered me. Heb. shut me up.]
evil men <05760> [to the ungodly.]
throws <03399> [turned.]
peace <07961> [at ease.]
shattered <06565> [broken me.]
neck <06203> [by my neck.]
crushed <06327> [shaken.]
made <06965> [set me up.]
archers <07228> [archers.]
pierces <06398> [he cleaveth.]
pity <02550> [doth.]
pours out <08210> [poureth.]
breaks through <06555> [breaketh.]
rushes <07323> [runneth.]
sewed <08609> [sewed.]
buried ... horn <07161 05953> [defiled my horn.]
face <06440> [face.]
eyelids <06079> [on my eyelids.]
violence <02555> [Not for.]
prayer <08605> [my prayer.]
earth <0776> [O earth.]
cover ... blood <03680 01818> [cover not.]
cry <02201> [let my cry.]
witness <05707> [my witness.]
high <04791> [on high. Heb. in the high places.]
[scorn me. Heb. are my scorners.]
pour out <01811> [poureth.]
contends <03198> [plead.]
man <01121> [neighbour. or, friend.]
years ... lie .... few <08141 04557> [a few years. Heb. years of number.]
return <07725> [whence.]
