Job 16
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 16, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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Then Job answered and said,
Job 16:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I have heard many such things: miserable comforters {are} ye all. {miserable: or, troublesome}
Job 16:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? {vain...: Heb. words of wind}
Job 16:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I also could speak as ye {do}: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Job 16:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{But} I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage {your grief}.
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Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and {though} I forbear, what am I eased? {what...: Heb. what goeth from me?}
Job 16:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Job 16:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, {which} is a witness {against me}: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
Job 16:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He teareth {me} in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
Job 16:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
Job 16:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. {hath...: Heb. hath shut me up}
Job 16:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken {me} by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
Job 16:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Job 16:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
Job 16:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
Job 16:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids {is} the shadow of death;
Job 16:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Not for {any} injustice in mine hands: also my prayer {is} pure.
Job 16:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
Job 16:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Also now, behold, my witness {is} in heaven, and my record {is} on high. {on high: Heb. in the high places}
Job 16:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My friends scorn me: {but} mine eye poureth out {tears} unto God. {scorn me: Heb. are my scorners}
Job 16:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man {pleadeth} for his neighbour! {neighbour: or, friend}
Job 16:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When a few years are come, then I shall go the way {whence} I shall not return. {a few...: Heb. years of number}
Job 16:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.