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Themes in Job 16

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Themes in Job 16

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Job 16:1 (show verse)

Then Job answered,

Job » Lack of sympathy
Persecution » Instances of » Of job

Job 16:2 (show verse)

“I have heard many such things;

Sorry comforters are you all.

Job » Lack of sympathy
Persecution » Instances of » Of job

Job 16:3 (show verse)

“Is there no limit to windy words?
Or what plagues you that you answer?

Evil » Words evil words of men » Vain
Job » Lack of sympathy
Persecution » Instances of » Of job
Speaking » Folly in
Words » Evil » Vain

Job 16:4 (show verse)

“I too could speak like you,
If I were in your place.
I could compose words against you
And shake my head at you.

Persecution » Instances of » Of job
Speaking » Folly in

Job 16:5 (show verse)

“I could strengthen you with my mouth,
And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.

Duty toward the Afflicted » To comfort them

Job 16:6 (show verse)

“If I speak, my pain is not lessened,
And if I hold back, what has left me?

No Themes for this verse.

Job 16:7 (show verse)

“But now He has exhausted me;
You have laid waste all my company.

Afflictions » Often severe

Job 16:8 (show verse)

“You have shriveled me up,

It has become a witness;

And my leanness rises up against me,
It testifies to my face.

Afflictions » Often severe
Diseases » Mentioned in scripture » Atrophy

Job 16:9 (show verse)

“His anger has torn me and hunted me down,
He has gnashed at me with His teeth;
My adversary glares at me.

Afflictions » Often severe
Gnashing of teeth » In rage against the righteous
Teeth » Gnashing (grinding) of, usually signifying anger or extreme pain

Job 16:10 (show verse)

“They have gaped at me with their mouth,
They have

slapped me on the cheek with contempt;

They have massed themselves against me.

Afflictions » Often severe
Suffering for righteousness' sake » Of the jews smiting of the righteous » Upon the cheek

Job 16:11 (show verse)

“God hands me over to ruffians
And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

Afflictions » Often severe

Job 16:12 (show verse)

“I was at ease, but He shattered me,
And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces;
He has also set me up as His target.

Afflictions » Moments of Discouragement » From God
Afflictions » From God
Afflictions » Often severe
Trials » From God

Job 16:13 (show verse)

“His arrows surround me.
Without mercy He splits my kidneys open;
He pours out my gall on the ground.

Afflictions » Often severe
Bow » Figurative
Gall » Any bitter or poisonous substance, like bile

Job 16:14 (show verse)

“He breaks through me with breach after breach;
He runs at me like a warrior.

Afflictions » Often severe

Job 16:15 (show verse)

“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin
And thrust my horn in the dust.

Afflictions » Often severe
Horns » Illustrative » (bringing down,) of degradation
Sackcloth » A symbol of mourning
Sackcloth » Was worn » Frequently next the skin in deep afflictions

Job 16:16 (show verse)

“My face is flushed from weeping,

And deep darkness is on my eyelids,

Afflictions » Often severe
death » Nearness of » Shadow of
Eyes » Parts of, mentioned in scripture » The lid
Tears » Of solicitude over sinners » Of disappointment and grief

Job 16:17 (show verse)

Although there is no violence in my hands,
And my prayer is pure.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 16:18 (show verse)

“O earth, do not cover my blood,
And let there be no resting place for my cry.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 16:19 (show verse)

“Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,
And my advocate is on high.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 16:20 (show verse)

“My friends are my scoffers;

My eye weeps to God.

Eyes » Actions of mentioned in scripture » Weeping

Job 16:21 (show verse)

“O that a man might plead with God
As a man with his neighbor!

No Themes for this verse.

Job 16:22 (show verse)

“For when a few years are past,
I shall go the way of no return.

death » Miscellaneous subjects » Going the way whence there is no return
natural Death » Described as » Going the way whence there is no return