Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.

Job 16

• As Job, also Jesus. (He fights the battle alone).

Job Reproaches His Pitiless Friends

Job 16:¹Then Job answered and said:

Job 16:² “I have heard many such things;
Miserable comforters are you all!

• Job’s friends are no comfort at all. Instead, when he is down they criticize which results in causing his soul to be buffeted as well as his body; adding insult to injury.

Job 16:³ Shall words of wind (Empty words) have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?

• They insist he sinned, Job denied he sinned, they deny his denial.
• The Pharisees insisted Jesus was a sinner.
  • John 8:46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me?

Job 16:⁴ I also could speak as you do,
If your soul were in my soul’s place.
I could heap up words against you,
And shake my head at you;

• His friends speak as if they themselves are innocent. If Job were stronger and if their roles were reversed Job could point out all their sins.

• Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

Job 16:⁵ But (instead) I would strengthen you with my mouth,
And the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief.

• But, Job points out, he would not act as they are; instead he would comfort them and help relieve their grief.

Job 16:⁶ “Though I speak, my grief is not relieved;
And if I remain silent, how am I eased?

• His friends are worthless to him in relieving his suffering and only add to it.

Job 16:⁷ But now He has worn me out;
You have made desolate all my company.

Job 16:⁸ You have shriveled me up, and it is a witness against me;
My leanness rises up against me and bears witness to my face.

Job 16:⁹ He tears me in His wrath and hates me;
He gnashes at me with His teeth;
My adversary (Satan) sharpens His gaze on me.

• Job does not escape Satan’s wrath who is sharpening his teeth on him.

Job 16:¹⁰ They gape (Lit. “To lie in wait as an adversary”) at me with their mouth, They strike me reproachfully on the cheek, they gather together against me.

• Prophecies of Jesus on the cross:
  
  Psalm 22:13 They gape at Me with their mouths, Like a raging and roaring lion.
  
  Psalm 22:^1-2 My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
  Why are You so far from helping Me,
  And from the words of My groaning?
  O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear;
  And in the night season and am not silent.
  
  John 18:22-23 And when He had said these things, one of the officers who stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, “Do You answer the high priest like that?” Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why do you strike Me?”

Job 16:¹¹ God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over to the hands of the wicked (Satan).

•  Mark 15:15 So Pilate, wanting to gratify the crowd, released Barabbas to them; and he delivered Jesus, after he had scourged Him, to be crucified.

Job 16:¹² I was at ease, but He has shattered me;
He also has taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces;
He has set me up for His target,

Job 16:¹³ His archers surround me. He pierces my heart and does not pity;
He pours out my gall on the ground.

• John 19:34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
• Gall means “a serpent’s venom”. Metaphorically, The serpent is Satan who is biting Jesus’ heel with his venom from God’s prophecy of Genesis 3:15.

Job 16:¹⁴ He breaks me with wound upon wound; He runs at me like a warrior (giant).

• Jesus sweated blood during His prayer in the Garden in Gethsemane, without sleep from His so-ca
• lled “court trials” in the middle of the night where his beard had been plucked, given to soldiers who thrashed Him from head to foot, then impaled Him with a crown of thorns before wrapping Him in a robe, mocking Him as blood stuck to the robe which was torn off before His crucifixion. Finally, at His death, a spear broke His heart.
  
  The burial cloth of Jesus: Count the wounds.
  Double the count to include the back…See: TOPIC: Burial Cloth of Jesus (More proof on the burial cloth of Jesus)

Job 16:¹⁵ “I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and laid my head (Lit. horn or power) in the dust.

Job 16:¹⁶ My face is flushed (Lit. red) from weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

• The color Red is symbolic of sin and redemption.

Job 16:¹⁷ Although no violence is in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

Job 16:¹⁸ “O earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry have no resting place!

• Jesus was put in a tomb where no earth covered His blood.

Job 16:¹⁹ Surely even now my witness is in heaven, and my evidence is on high.

• Job speaks as though he is on trial in heaven before a prosecutor, and he may very well be. Satan’s name means the Accuser, and there is evidence that men on earth are also in heaven in the Spirit, in entanglement.
• Job is appealing to heaven to speak on his behalf.

Job 16:²⁰ My friends scorn me; My eyes pour out tears to God (‘ĕlôha).

Job 16:²¹ Oh, that one might plead for a man with God (‘ĕlôha), as a man pleads for his neighbor (friend)!

[OR: Oh, that one might plead for a man (Lit. an Adam) with Eloha (singular entity of the Godhead) who IS a man (as the son of Adam), as he would plead for a neighbor.]

• Job wants to know “why???” But he gets no answer.

• Note: In verses 20 and 21 the Hebrew word for God is “eloha”, the singular form of “elohim”, addressing not the Godhead, but one singular entity of the Godhead.
  
  • In the literal it appears Eloha (God) is addressed as a Son of Adam even as Jesus called Himself the “Son of Man” when He came in the flesh.
  • “Who is my neighbor?” Luke 10:29 – The one who binds up the wounds (Jesus).
  • It appears Job may be calling for “the Son” of the Triune Godhead when he calls for “eloha”.
    
    See Pop-Up: Verses with “eloha”

Job 16:²² For when a few years are finished, I shall go the way of no return.

Below: A comparison between Jesus and Job:

Job is pierced – Job 16:13	Jesus is pierced – John 19:34
Job is struck on the cheek – Job 16:19	Jesus is struck on the cheek – John 18:22
Job has no family	Jesus has no family (being of God)
Job was rejected by his wife	Jesus was rejected by His brothers
Job has no possessions	Jesus has no possessions
Job is a man of suffering	Jesus is a man of suffering
Job was mocked	Jesus was mocked
Job was elevated and made low	Jesus was elevated and made low
Satan wanted to destroy Job	Satan wanted to destroy Jesus
Job spoke the words of God	Jesus spoke the words of the Father
Satan tried to incite God against Job	Satan tried to incite Jesus against the Father
Job was righteous and blameless	Jesus was righteous and blameless
Job’s accusers were legalistic	Jesus’ accusers were legalistic
Job saved his friends	Jesus saved men
God accepted his friends in the place of Job	God accepted men in the place of Jesus

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