Job 16

Job 16:1

2. Job’s Response (Chaps. 16, 17)16:1-5 Job rejects Eliphaz’s analysis of the situation and fights back by calling his critics “miserable comforters.” If they were in his place, he would at least try to comfort them! 16:6-14 But now God has turned against him and tortures him by turning him over to . . . ungodly men and persecuting him beyond endurance, with wound upon wound. All this is in spite of the fact that he is guilty of no unrighteousness. 16:15-22 The fact that Job had sewn (not merely put on) sackcloth over his skin shows he is in permanent mourning. Without friends to comfort, or anyone to plead his case, he will soon go the way of no return. Some of the language in verses 9-19 is employed in the Psalms to refer to the Messiah. Therefore we are justified in making an application of them to the sufferings of Christ, even if that is not the primary meaning.