Job 16:8-9, Psa 31:9-10, 32:3, 38:2-8, 102:3-5 | TSK | STEP | And thou hast, etc.Some render, "thou has fettered me," as {kamat} signifies in Arabic; but as it signifies in Syriac to be wrinkled, the common version seems, from the connexion, to be more correct; and if Job's disease were the elephantiasis, these words would apply most forcibly to the wrinkled state of the skin in that disorder. is a witness. my leanness.

Job 16:8-9

And thou hast, etc.Some render, "thou has fettered me," as {kamat} signifies in Arabic; but as it signifies in Syriac to be wrinkled, the common version seems, from the connexion, to be more correct; and if Job's disease were the elephantiasis, these words would apply most forcibly to the wrinkled state of the skin in that disorder.

is a witness.

10:17; Ru 1:21; Eph 5:27

my leanness.

Ps 106:15; Isa 10:16; 24:16

teareth me.

10:16,17; 18:4; Ps 50:22; La 3:10; Ho 5:14

he gnasheth.

Ps 35:16; 37:12; La 2:16

mine.

13:24,27; 19:11; Mic 7:8

Psalms 31:9-10

mine.

6:7; 88:9; Job 17:7; La 4:17; 5:17

my soul.

6:1,2; 22:14,15; 38:1-10; 44:25; 73:14,26; 88:3-5; 102:3-5; 107:10

Job 33:19-22

my life.

78:33; 88:15; 102:3-28; Job 3:24; Ro 9:2

strength.

71:9

bones.

32:3,4; 102:3-5

Psalms 32:3

When.

Ge 3:8-19; 1Sa 31:13; 2Sa 11:27; 12:1-12; 21:12-14; Pr 28:13

Isa 57:17; Jer 31:18,19; Lu 15:15,16

bones.

6:2; 31:9,10; 38:3; 51:8; 102:3-5; Job 30:17,30; La 1:3; 3:4

roaring.

22:1; 38:8; Job 3:24; Isa 51:20; 59:11; La 3:8; Ho 7:14

Psalms 38:2-8

thine.

21:12; 64:7; Job 6:4; La 3:12

thy hand.

32:4; 39:10,11; De 2:15; Ru 1:13; 1Sa 5:6,11; 6:9

soundness.

31:9; 2Ch 26:19; Job 2:7,8; 33:19-22; Isa 1:5,6

neither.

6:2; 51:8; 102:3,5

rest. Heb. peace, or, health. because.

51:8; 90:7,8; La 3:40-42

mine.

40:12; Ezr 9:6

as an.

Le 7:18; Isa 53:11; La 1:14; Mt 11:28; 1Pe 2:24

My wounds.The soul being invisible, its distempers are also so; therefore the sacred writers describe them by the distempers of the body. (See the Parallel Texts on these verses.) On reading these and similar passages, say Bp. Lowth, some, who were but little acquainted with the genius of Hebrew poetry, have pretended to enquire into the nature of the disease with which the poet was afflicted; not less absurdly, in my opinion, than if they had perplexed themselves to discover in what river he was plunged, when he complains that "the deep waters had gone over his soul."

7; 32:3; Isa 1:5,6; Jer 8:22

troubled. Heb. wearied. bowed.

35:14; 42:5; *marg:

57:6; 145:14

mourning.

6:6; 31:10; 42:9; 43:2; 88:9; Job 30:28; Isa 38:14

my loins.

41:8; 2Ch 21:18,19; Job 7:5; 30:18; Ac 12:23

no.

roared.

22:1,2; 32:3; Job 3:24; 30:28; Isa 59:11