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Text -- Job 16:1-8 (NET)

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Job’s Reply to Eliphaz
16:1 Then Job replied: 16:2 “I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all! 16:3 Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer? 16:4 I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could pile up words against you and I could shake my head at you. 16:5 But I would strengthen you with my words; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
Abandonment by God and Man
16:6 “But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking –how much of it goes away? 16:7 Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household. 16:8 You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.
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Names, People and Places:
 · Job a man whose story is told in the book of Job,a man from the land of Uz in Edom


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Doubting | Job | Persecution | Afflictions and Adversities | Speaking | ASSUAGE | JOB, BOOK OF | Friendship | PROVOCATION; PROVOKE | COMFORTER | GESTURE | HEAP | PARACLETE | WRINKLE | more
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NET Notes: Job 16:1 In the next two chapters we have Job’s second reply to Eliphaz. Job now feels abandoned by God and by his friends, and so complains that this al...

NET Notes: Job 16:2 The expression uses the Piel participle in construct: מְנַחֲמֵי עָמָ...

NET Notes: Job 16:3 The LXX seems to have gone a different way: “What, is there any reason in vain words, or what will hinder you from answering?”

NET Notes: Job 16:4 The action is a sign of mockery (see Ps 22:7[8]; Isa 37:22; Matt 27:39).

NET Notes: Job 16:5 The verb יַחְשֹׂךְ (yakhsokh) means “to restrain; to withhold.” There is no object, ...

NET Notes: Job 16:6 Some argue that מָה (mah) in the text is the Arabic ma, the simple negative. This would then mean “it does not depart far from...

NET Notes: Job 16:7 In poetic discourse there is often an abrupt change from person to another. See GKC 462 §144.p. Some take the subject of this verb to be God, oth...

NET Notes: Job 16:8 The verb is used in Ps 109:24 to mean “to be lean”; and so “leanness” is accepted here for the noun by most. Otherwise the wor...

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