Job 16:1

Job Complains of God's Dealings

16¹ Then Job replied:

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Other Translations of Job 16:1

King James Version

Job Complains of God's Dealings

16¹ Then Job answered and said,

English Standard Version

Job Complains of God's Dealings

16¹ Then Job answered and said:

The Message

Job Complains of God's Dealings

16¹ Then Job defended himself:

New King James Version

Job Complains of God's Dealings

16¹ Then Job answered and said:

New Living Translation

Job Complains of God's Dealings

16¹ Then Job spoke again:

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 16:1

Commentary on Job 16:1-5

(Read Job 16:1-5)

Eliphaz had represented Job's discourses as unprofitable, and nothing to the purpose; Job here gives his the same character. Those who pass censures, must expect to have them retorted; it is easy, it is endless, but what good does it do? Angry answers stir up men's passions, but never convince their judgments, nor set truth in a clear light. What Job says of his friends is true of all creatures, in comparison with God; one time or other we shall be made to see and own that miserable comforters are they all. When under convictions of sin, terrors of conscience, or the arrests of death, only the blessed Spirit can comfort effectually; all others, without him, do it miserably, and to no purpose. Whatever our brethren's sorrows are, we ought by sympathy to make them our own; they may soon be so.