Job 6:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

Job 6:16 —

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Afflictions and Adversities Ice Snow

Commentary

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

(vv. 14-21)

Eliphaz had been very severe in his censures of Job; and his companions, though as yet they had said little, yet had intimated their concurrence with him. Their unkindness therein poor Job here complains of, as an aggravation of his calamity and a further excuse of his desire to die; for what satisfaction could he ever expect in this world when those that should have been his comforters thus prove…

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

(vv. 16)

16. blackish--literally, “Go as a mourner in black clothing” (Psa 34:14). A vivid and poetic image to picture the stream turbid and black with melted ice and snow, descending from the mountains into the valley. In the [second] clause, the snow dissolved is, in the poet’s view, “hid” in the flood [Umbreit].