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Text -- Job 16:14-22 (NET)

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16:14 He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior. 16:15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust; 16:16 my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness, 16:17 although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.
An Appeal to God as Witness
16:18 “O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry. 16:19 Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high. 16:20 My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God; 16:21 and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend. 16:22 For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
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NET Notes: Job 16:14 Heb “runs.”

NET Notes: Job 16:15 There is no English term that captures exactly what “horn” is meant to do. Drawn from the animal world, the image was meant to convey stre...

NET Notes: Job 16:16 See Job 3:5. Just as joy brings light and life to the eyes, sorrow and suffering bring darkness. The “eyelids” here would be synecdoche, r...

NET Notes: Job 16:17 For the use of the preposition עַל (’al) to introduce concessive clauses, see GKC 499 §160.c.

NET Notes: Job 16:18 The word is simply “a place,” but in the context it surely means a hidden place, a secret place that would never be discovered (see 18:21)...

NET Notes: Job 16:19 The parallelism now uses the Aramaic word “my advocate” – the one who testifies on my behalf. The word again appears in Gen 31:47 fo...

NET Notes: Job 16:20 The Hebrew verb means “to drip; to stream; to flow”; the expression is cryptic, but understandable: “my eye flows [with tears as I c...

NET Notes: Job 16:21 The verb is supplied from the parallel clause.

NET Notes: Job 16:22 The verbal expression “I will not return” serves here to modify the journey that he will take. It is “the road [of] I will not retur...

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