Job 5:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

Job 5:16 —

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Psalms 107:42
The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
Psalms 63:11
But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
1 Samuel 2:8-9
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them. …
Exodus 11:7
But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
Zechariah 9:12
Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-16)

Eliphaz, having touched Job in a very tender part, in mentioning both the loss of his estate and the death of his children as the just punishment of his sin, that he might not drive him to despair, here begins to encourage him, and puts him in a way to make himself easy. Now he very much changes his voice (Gal. 4:20), and speaks in the accents of kindness, as if he would atone for the hard words h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. the poor hath hope--of the interposition of God. iniquity stoppeth her mouth--(Psa 107:42; Mi 7:9, 10; Is 52:15). Especially at the last day, through shame (Jude 15; Mt 22:12). The “mouth” was the offender (Job 5:15), and the mouth shall then be stopped (Is 25:8) at the end.