約伯記 16:16

16 我 的 臉 因 哭 泣 發 紫 ， 在 我 的 眼 皮 上 有 死 蔭 。

約伯記 16:16 Meaning and Commentary

Job 16:16

My face is foul with weeping
On account of the loss of his substance, and especially of his children; at the unkindness of his friends, and over his own corruptions, which he felt working in him, and breaking forth in unbecoming language; and because of the hidings of the face of God from him: the word used in the Arabic language ^F9 has the, signification of redness in it, as Aben Ezra and others observe; of red wine, and, as Schultens adds, of the fermentation of it; and is fitly used to express a man's face in excessive weeping, which looks red, and swelled, and blubbered:

and on my eyelids [is] the shadow of death;
which were become dim through weeping, so that he could scarcely see out of them, and, like a dying man, could hardly lift them up; and such was his sorrowful condition, that he never expected deliverance from it, but that it would issue in death; and which he supposed was very near, and that he had many symptoms of it, of which the decay of his eyesight was one; and he was so far from winking with his eyes in a wanton and ludicrous way, as Eliphaz had hinted, ( Job 15:12 ) ; that there was such a dead weight upon them, even the shadow of death itself, that he was not able to lift them up.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (hrmrmx) "intumuit", V. L. Tigurine version; "fermentescit", Schultens.

約伯記 16:16 In-Context

14 將 我 破 裂 又 破 裂 ， 如 同 勇 士 向 我 直 闖 。

15 我 縫 麻 布 在 我 皮 膚 上 ， 把 我 的 角 放 在 塵 土 中 。

16 我 的 臉 因 哭 泣 發 紫 ， 在 我 的 眼 皮 上 有 死 蔭 。

17 我 的 手 中 卻 無 強 暴 ； 我 的 祈 禱 也 是 清 潔 。

18 地 啊 ， 不 要 遮 蓋 我 的 血 ！ 不 要 阻 擋 我 的 哀 求 ！