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WHAT TIME - In the time; or after a time.
THEY WAX WARM - Gesenius renders this word (יזרבו
_y__e__zor__e__bû_) when they became narrow, and this version has
been adopted by Noyes. The word occurs no...
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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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_WHAT TIME THEY WAX WARM, THEY VANISH: WHEN IT IS HOT, THEY ARE
CONSUMED OUT OF THEIR PLACE._
Wax warm - rather, 'At the time when (But they soon, Umbreit) they
become narrower (flow in a narrower be...
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6:17 diminish, (b-5) Or 'flow.'...
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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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בְּ֭ עֵת יְזֹרְב֣וּ נִצְמָ֑תוּ בְּ֝
חֻמֹּ֗ו נ
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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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(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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WHAT TIME THEY WAX WARM THEY VANISH,.... The ice and the snow, which,
when the weather becomes warm, they melt away and disappear; and in
like manner, he suggests his friends ceased to be friends to h...
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What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are
consumed out of their place.
Ver. 17. What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, &c.]
Lo, such is the fruit of creature confi...
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_What time they wax warm_ When the weather grows milder, and the frost
and snow are dissolved; _they vanish_ נצמתו, _nitsmathu, ex cisi
sunt, they are cut off_, having no fountain from whence to draw...
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what time they wax warm, they vanish, after the short spring flow,
which seemed to carry so much promise, their bed is soon parched; WHEN
IT IS HOT, THEY ARE CONSUMED OUT OF THEIR PLACE, altogether
ex...
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JOB CRITICIZES ELIPHAZ FOR HIS CONDUCT...
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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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THEY VANISH:
_ Heb._ they are cut off
WHEN IT IS HOT:
_ Heb._ in the heat thereof
CONSUMED:
_ Heb._ extinguished...
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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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Job 6:17 When H6256 warm H2215 (H8792) flow H6789 (H8738) hot H2527
vanish H1846 (H8738) place...
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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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1 Kings 17:1...
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Warm — When the weather grows milder. Hot — In the hot season,
when waters are most refreshing and necessary....