16 My face is red with weeping, dark shadows ring my eyes;
16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
16 My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness,
16 Now my face is blotched red from weeping; look at the dark shadows under my eyes,
16 My face is flushed from weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
16 My eyes are red with weeping; dark shadows circle my eyes.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 16:16
Commentary on Job 16:6-16
(Read Job 16:6-16)
Here is a doleful representation of Job's grievances. What reason we have to bless God, that we are not making such complaints! Even good men, when in great troubles, have much ado not to entertain hard thoughts of God. Eliphaz had represented Job as unhumbled under his affliction: No, says Job, I know better things; the dust is now the fittest place for me. In this he reminds us of Christ, who was a man of sorrows, and pronounced those blessed that mourn, for they shall be comforted.