They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
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They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
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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.
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They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek scornfully; they gather themselves together against me.
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Passages linked to Job 16:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 35:15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
- Psalms 22:13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.
- Isaiah 50:6 I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
- Lamentations 3:30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.
- Psalms 22:16-17 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet. I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
- Micah 5:1 Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
- Acts 23:2 The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
- 1 Kings 22:24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”
- Psalms 94:21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
- 2 Corinthians 11:20 For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.
- 2 Chronicles 18:23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”
- Psalms 35:21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”
- Matthew 26:67 Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,
- Luke 23:35-36 The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!” The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,
- John 18:22 When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”
- Acts 4:27 “For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That is, hath handled me most contemptuously: for so…
That is, hath handled me most contemptuously: for so smiting on the cheek signified, 1 Kings 22:24; Mark 14:65.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 16:10 They have gaped upon me with their…
Job 16:10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
Ver. 10. They have gaped upon me with their mouth] They? who? Non solum Deus, nec solum amici mei, sed tota rerum machina mihi adversatur, Not God only, nor these friends of mine, but all the creatures are up in arms against me, and threateneth to devour me at one morsel.
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They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully] i.e. They have done me all the disgrace that may be. See Lam 3:30 2Co 11:20-21 Mic 5:1 Act 23:1-2; Joh 18:22. Our Saviour was so served according to the letter; they gaped upon him, mowed at him, buffeted him on the face, gathered themselves together against him, as here. Hence some of the ancients call Job a figure and type of Christ, who was thus dealt with both literally and also figuratively.
They have gathered themselves together against me] Or, They have filled themselves upon me, as Exo 15:7. They have taken their fill of pleasure at my miseries, as Tigurius rendereth it; or, They come upon me by full troops, so Broughton. Men are apt to agree for mischief Psa 35:15; Psa 83:5-7.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain They; the instruments of God’s anger, my friends, as…
They; the instruments of God’s anger, my friends, as they are falsely called.
Gaped upon me with their mouth; opened their mouths wide against me; either,
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1. To devour and destroy me; as a lion which falls upon his prey with open mouth, as this phrase is used, Psa 22:13,14. And this they did aggravating and increasing his sorrows, whereby he was well-nigh overwhelmed. Or,
2. To scoff and deride me, as it follows, and as this phrase is most commonly used, as Psa 22:8; 35:21.
Reproachfully; or, by reproach; or in way of scorn and contempt; whereof such smiting was a sign, as 1Ki 22:24; Lam 3:30; Mic 5:1. The sign is here put for the thing signified; they despised and derided me.
They have gathered themselves together against me, i.e. they are come from several places, and met together here, not for me, or to comfort me, as they pretended, but really against me, or to torment and grieve me. Heb. they have filled themselves, &c. Either,
1. They have filled up their numbers, they are all come against me. Or,
2. They have filled their minds with evil opinions of me, and their hearts with courage and resolution to assault me, and their mouths with words and arguments against me. Compare Ecc 8:11; Act 5:3.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain God hath delivered me up to the ungodly,.... The…
God hath delivered me up to the ungodly,.... The evil or wicked one, for it is in the singular number; and designs either Satan, into whose hands God had not only delivered his substance, but his person, excepting his life; though it may be, and which is an objection to this sense, Job as yet knew it not; or else Eliphaz, or, the singular number being put for the plural, as the next clause explains it, all his friends, whom he in turn calls evil and wicked men, because of their treatment of him; or else the Sabeans and Chaldeans are intended, who were suffered to plunder him of his substance; the words are very applicable to Christ, who was delivered to the Gentiles, and into the hands of sinners and wicked men, and that by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, who with wicked hands took him, and crucified him, Mat 20:19; or God "shut him up", or "delivered him bound" (d), as the word signifies; which was literally true of Christ, who was bound by the Jews, and delivered first to the high priest, and then to the Roman governor, in such circumstances, Joh 18:12;
and turned me over into the hands of the wicked; signifying the same as before, unless it should be rendered, "and caused me to decline", or "come down by the hands of the wicked" (e) that is, from his former state of prosperity and happiness, into the low circumstances in which he was, and which he was brought into by the means of wicked men, God suffering it so to be.
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(d) "vinctum me tradidit", Grotius, Michaelis, Schultens. (e) "divertere fecit a vita", Pagninus; "declinare me facit", Beza, Drusius, Mercerus.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain They - My friends. Gaped - Opened their mouths…
They - My friends. Gaped - Opened their mouths wide against me. In all this Job was a type of Christ. These very expressions are used in the predictions of his sufferings, Psalm xxii, 13. They gaped upon me with their mouths, and Micah v, 1. They shall smite the judge of Israel upon the check.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Job 16:10. They — My friends, the instruments of…
Job 16:10. They — My friends, the instruments of God’s anger; have gaped upon me with their mouth — Have opened their mouths wide against me; either, 1st, To devour and destroy me, as a lion which falls upon its pray with open mouth: see Psa 22:13-14, where these very expressions are used in the prediction of Christ’s sufferings, of whom, in all this, Job was an eminent type. Or, 2d, To scoff and deride me, as it follows, and as this phrase is most commonly used: see Psa 22:8; Psa 35:21. They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully — Hebrew, בחרפה, becherpeh, by reproach; or in a way of scorn and contempt, of which smiting on the cheek was a sign: see Lam 3:30; Mic 5:1. The meaning is, they have despised and derided me, the sign being put for the thing signified. They have gathered themselves together against me — They are come from several places, and have met together here, not for me, or to comfort me, as they pretended; but really against me, and to grieve and torment me.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain They have gaped upon me - Changing the form…
They have gaped upon me - Changing the form from the singular to the plural, and including “all” his pretended friends. Such a change in the number is not uncommon. His mind seems to have passed from the particular instance which he was contemplating, to “all” his friends, and he suddenly felt that “all” had treated him alike. The meaning is, that, like wild beasts, they open their mouth to devour me.
They have gathered themselves together - They have entered into a conspiracy, and have “agreed” to oppose me. They are united in this thing, and all feel and act alike.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain gaped--not in order to devour, but to mock him.…
gaped--not in order to devour, but to mock him. To fill his cup of misery, the mockery of his friends (Job 16:10) is added to the hostile treatment from God (Job 16:9).
smitten . . . cheek--figurative for contemptuous abuse (Lam 3:30; Mat 5:39).
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gathered themselves--"conspired unanimously" [SCHUTTENS].
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 10. They have gaped upon me — As in…
10. They have gaped upon me — As in many other instances, the subject of the sentence is left unexpressed. The thought is thus rendered more solemn and emphatic. See note on Psa_22:13; also Luk_6:38 — “Shall they give.” The text speaks of a company of fiends, whether human or diabolic, who crowd around the sufferer jeering and maltreating him.
The description bears a striking resemblance to that given of Christ, who in many respects was the antitype of Job. (Psalms 22.)
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Smitten me upon the cheek — “To smite the cheek is the deepest insult that can be offered to an Asiatic.” — Lord Valentia.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. Picture of the hostility of men—the pack of…
10. Picture of the hostility of men—the pack of petty foes that howl at the heels of his greater enemy.
have gaped] Rather, they gape. Similarly, they smite. The figure of wild beasts is not strictly maintained, but passes in the second clause into the reality. The gestures described are those of contempt and destructive hatred, see Psa_22:13, Isa_57:4, Mic_5:1, Lam_3:30; cf. Joh_18:22; Joh_19:3, Act_23:2.
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they have gathered themselves] they gather. The phrase means probably that they fling themselves in one body upon him, they combine in their attack against him.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain They have gaped upon me with their mouth. The…
They have gaped upon me with their mouth. The "man of sorrows" of the Old Testament is, in many respects, a type of the "Man of sorrows" of the New; and, in the Messianic psalms, David constantly applies to Christ expressions which Job had used in reference to himself. (Psa_22:13) They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully. (Mic_5:1 Mat_27:30 Luk_22:64 Joh_18:22) They have gathered themselves together against me. (see Psa_35:15, and compare, in illustration of the literal and historical sense, Job_30:1, Job_30:10-14)
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