Job 35:16

16 Zo heeft Job in ijdelheid zijn mond geopend, en zonder wetenschap woorden vermenigvuldigd.

Job 35:16 Meaning and Commentary

Job 35:16

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain
In uttering such unbecoming expressions, observed, and refuted, in his loud complaints of God, and of his dealings with him, and in defence of himself;

he multiplieth words without knowledge;
both against God and in answer to others; being in a great measure ignorant of the nature and number of his sins, and of his afflictions; and of the end of God in them, and of the right he had to lay them upon him; us well as of his duty patiently to bear them, and trust in God, and wait his own time for deliverance out of them; and or the truth of this he was afterwards convinced, and acknowledged it, ( Job 42:3 ) .

Job 35:16 In-Context

14 Dat gij ook gezegd hebt: Gij zult Hem niet aanschouwen; er is nochtans gericht voor Zijn aangezicht, wacht gij dan op Hem.

15 Maar nu, dewijl het niets is, dat Zijn toorn Job bezocht heeft, en Hij hem niet zeer in overvloed doorkend heeft;

16 Zo heeft Job in ijdelheid zijn mond geopend, en zonder wetenschap woorden vermenigvuldigd.