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THEY WERE CONFOUNDED BECAUSE THEY HAD HOPED - The caravans of Tema and
Sheba. The word “confounded” here means ashamed. It represents the
state of feeling which one has who has met with disappointment...
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CHAPTER S 6-7 JOB'S ANSWER
_ 1. His Despair justified by the greatness of his suffering (Job
6:1)_
2. He requests to be cut off (Job 6:8)
3. He reproacheth his friends (Job 6:14)
4. The misery of...
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JOB'S SORROWFUL DISAPPOINTMENT IN HIS FRIENDS. He begins by citing a
proverb. The despairing man who is slipping from religion, looks for
help and sympathy from his friends. The friends, however, have...
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Job's sorrowful disappointment at the position taken up towards him by
his three friends
Job had freely expressed his misery in ch. 3, believing that the
sympathies of his friends were entirely with...
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MY BRETHREN HAVE DEALT DECEITFULLY— Bishop Lowth observes, that
though the metaphor from overflowing waters is very frequent in other
sacred writers, yet the author of the book of Job never touches up...
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3. Bitter disappointment from his friends, who are unreasonably hard
(Job 6:14-23)
TEXT 6:14-23
14 TO HIM THAT IS READY TO FAINT KINDNESS _should be showed_ FROM HIS
FRIEND;
Even to him that forsak...
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_THEY WERE CONFOUNDED BECAUSE THEY HAD HOPED; THEY CAME THITHER, AND
WERE ASHAMED._
They had hoped - literally, each had hoped-namely, that their
companions would find water. The greater had been the...
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THE FIRST SPEECH OF JOB (JOB 6:7)
1-13. Job, smarting under the remarks of Eliphaz, which he feels are
not appropriate to his case, renews and justifies his complaints. He
bemoans the heaviness of Go...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 6
JOB REPLIES TO ELIPHAZ’S...
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There are some streams that travellers can always trust. The water is
always plentiful, even in the driest weather. When the travellers
arrive at these streams, there is water for them. And there is w...
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THEY WERE CONFOUNDED. — Comp. Jeremiah’s description of the famine
(Jeremiah 14:3). (See margin.)...
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בֹּ֥שׁוּ כִּֽי ־בָטָ֑ח בָּ֥אוּ
עָ֝דֶ֗יהָ וַ י
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VIII.
MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING
Job 6:1; Job 7:1
Job SPEAKS
WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own
heart because no channel outside self is provided for the hot strea...
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“A DECEITFUL BROOK”
Job 6:1
The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his
friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not
measured the greatness of his pain,...
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Job's answer is a magnificent and terrible outcry. First, he speaks of
his pain as a protest against the method of Eliphaz. His reply is not
to the deduction which Eliphaz' argument suggested, but rat...
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_I. Hebrew, "they had hoped" to pass along. (Haydock)_...
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(14) В¶ To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his
friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. (15) My brethren
have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they...
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Job's Answer to Eliphaz
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Last week we took a look at Eliphaz' speech to Job.
1. Eliphaz based the authority for what he said to Job upon the
visitation of an angel.
2. But, we al...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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AND THEY WERE CONFOUNDED BECAUSE THEY HAD HOPED,.... When they came to
the places where they hoped to find water, finding none were ashamed
of their vain hope, and reflected upon themselves for being...
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They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and
were ashamed.
Ver. 20. _They were confounded because they had hoped, &c._] Heb.
They blushed, or they were abashed, because disappo...
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_They were confounded_ That is, the troops and companies were
miserably disappointed; _because they hoped_ Comforted themselves with
the expectation of water there to quench their thirst; _they came,...
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JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ
(vv.1-30)
It is remarkable that Job, being in the painful condition he was, was
still able to reply in such capable and stirring language to Eliphaz.
He knew that Eliphaz had...
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14-30 In his prosperity Job formed great expectations from his
friends, but now was disappointed. This he compares to the failing of
brooks in summer. Those who rest their expectations on the creatur...
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THEY WERE CONFOUNDED, i.e. the troops and companies. Because they had
hoped; they comforted themselves with the expectation of water there
to quench their thirst. WERE ASHAMED; as having deceived them...
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Job 6:20 disappointed H954 (H8804) confident H982 (H8804) come H935
(H8804) confused H2659 (H8799)
confounded -
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CONTENTS: Job's answer to Eliphaz. His appeal for pity.
CHARACTERS: God, Eliphaz, Job.
CONCLUSION: No one can judge another justly without much prayer for
divine guidance. Affliction does not necess...
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Job 6:4. _The poison_ of the arrows absorbed his spirits. In 1822,
when Campbel the missionary travelled in South Africa, a bushman shot
one of his men in the back with a poisoned arrow. He languished...
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_My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook._
THE USES AND LESSONS OF DISAPPOINTMENT
The meaning of this passage is, that Job had been disappointed. He
hoped his friends would have comforted him i...
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_To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend._
A MESSAGE TO DOUBTERS
Such is the rendering of the Authorised Version; but, unfortunately,
it is a rendering which misses almost enti...
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_But Job answered and said._
JOB’S ANSWER TO ELIPHAZ
We must come upon grief in one of two ways and Job seems to have come
upon grief in a way that is to be deprecated. He came upon it late in
life....
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 6:1 Job responds to Eliphaz’s words of
“comfort.”
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_JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_
I. Justifies his complaint (Job 6:2).
“O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case
neither apprehended nor appreciated by his friends. Desires fervently
that his...
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EXPOSITION
Job 6:1. and 7. contain Job's reply to Eliphaz. In Job 6:1. he
confines himself to three points:
(1) a justification of his "grief"—_i.e._ of his vexation and
impatience (Job 6:1);
(2)
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So Job responds to him and he says, Oh that my grief were thoroughly
weighed, and my calamities laid in the balances together! (Job 6:1-2)
Now, of course, picturesque, you got to see it. In those days...
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Jeremiah 14:3; Jeremiah 14:4; Jeremiah 17:13; Romans 5:5; Romans 9:33
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Hoped — They comforted themselves with the expectation of water.
Ashamed — As having deceived themselves and others. We prepare
confusion for ourselves, by our vain hopes: the reeds break under us,
be...