2 I have heard H8085 many such things: H7227 miserable H5999 comforters H5162 are ye all.
But H199 ye are forgers H2950 of lies, H8267 ye are all physicians H7495 of no value. H457 O that H5414 ye would altogether H2790 hold your peace! H2790 and it should be your wisdom. H2451
Should not the multitude H7230 of words H1697 be answered? H6030 and should a man H376 full of talk H8193 be justified? H6663 Should thy lies H907 make H2790 men H4962 hold their peace? H2790 and when thou mockest, H3932 shall no man make thee ashamed? H3637
How long will ye vex H3013 my soul, H5315 and break H1792 me in pieces with words? H4405 These ten H6235 times H6471 have ye reproached H3637 me: ye are not ashamed H954 that ye make yourselves strange H1970 to me.
For they persecute H7291 him whom thou hast smitten; H5221 and they talk H5608 to the grief H4341 of those whom thou hast wounded. H2491
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Commentary on Job 16 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 16
This chapter begins Job's reply to that discourse of Eliphaz which we had in the foregoing chapter; it is but the second part of the same song of lamentation with which he had before bemoaned himself, and is set to the same melancholy tune.
Job 16:1-5
Both Job and his friends took the same way that disputants commonly take, which is to undervalue one another's sense, and wisdom, and management. The longer the saw of contention is drawn the hotter it grows; and the beginning of this sort of strife is as the letting forth of water; therefore leave it off before it be meddled with. Eliphaz had represented Job's discourses as idle, and unprofitable, and nothing to the purpose; and Job here gives his the same character. Those who are free in passing such censures must expect to have them retorted; it is easy, it is endless: but cui bono?-what good does it do? It will stir up men's passions, but will never convince their judgments, nor set truth in a clear light. Job here reproves Eliphaz,
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, v. 6.
Here is a doleful representation of Job's grievances. O what reason have we to bless God that we are not making such complaints! He complains,
Job 16:17-22
Job's condition was very deplorable; but had he nothing to support him, nothing to comfort him? Yes, and he here tells us what it was.