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Job 16:11-17

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

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11. God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. 12. I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken [me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. 13. His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. 14. He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. 15. I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. 16. My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [is] the shadow of death; 17. Not for [any] injustice in mine hands: also my prayer [is] pure.

Job 16:11-17 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Job 16:11

Theological / Devotional

Delivered me. All that Job had suffered at the hands of men — the gibes of his “comforters,” the insults and derision of base men, the desertion of many who might have been expected to help him — all these calamities Job attributes to God Himself. In so doing, he commits a common error of mankind — that of blaming God for those evil displays of human nature that are incited by Satan.

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