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Job 6:14

JOB—NOTE ON Job 6:14 Eliphaz has suggested that Job’s suffering may mean that he has been a fool (see Job 5:3). Job argues that a person such as Eliphaz who withholds kindness from a friend is himself acting unwisely (forsakes the fear of the Almighty).

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See also Job 6:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 6:14. _TO HIM THAT IS AFFLICTED PITY_ should be showed _from_ _his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty._] The _Vulgate_ gives a better sense, _Qui tollit ab amico suo_ _miseri...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    TO HIM THAT IS AFFLICTED - Margin, “melteth.” The word here used (מס _mâs_) is from מסס _mâsas_, to melt, flow down, waste away, and here means one who pines away, or is consumed under calamities. T...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The most probable sense of the verse is this: Kindness from his friend is due to him that is despairing, To him that is forsaking the fear of the Almighty. The sense of the second clause proposed b...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    TO HIM THAT IS AFFLICTED— _Should a man who is utterly undone be insulted by his friend? and should he tempt him to forsake the fear of the Almighty?_ Heath; who observes, that this clause plainly ref...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _TO HIM THAT IS AFFLICTED PITY SHOULD BE SHEWED FROM HIS FRIEND; BUT HE FORSAKETH THE FEAR OF THE ALMIGHTY._ Pity - a proverb х_ CHECED_ (H2617)]. Checed is the love which judges indulgently of our f...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    6:14 fainting (a-5) Or 'despairing.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    BUT HE FORSAKETH] RV 'even to him that forsaketh.' Kind words from his friends might have helped Job to retain his trust in God, which he feared to lose. 15-20. Job likens the treatment of the friends...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    We ought to support someone who suffers (Galatians 6:2). We should help everyone who needs our help (Matthew 25:34-45). We should sympathise with them. But Job’s friends did not do this. These friends...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BUT HE FORSAKETH THE FEAR OF THE ALMIGHTY. — It is difficult to determine the precise relation of dependent clauses in an archaic language like the Hebrew; but the Authorised Version is, at all events...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לַ † מָּ֣ס מֵ רֵעֵ֣הוּ חָ֑סֶד וְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    TO HIM THAT IS AFFLICTED PITY [SHOULD BE SHOWED] FROM HIS FRIEND,.... An "afflicted" man is an object of pity, one that is afflicted of God; either inwardly with a wounded spirit, with a sense of God'...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _To him that is afflicted pity [should be shewed] from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty._ Ver. 14. _To him that is afflicted_] Heb. melted, viz. in the furnace of affliction, whi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _To him that is afflicted_ Hebrew, _To him that is melted_, or _dissolved with afflictions:_ or, as Dr. Waterland renders it, _To one that is wasting away; pity should be showed from his friend_ His f...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    To him that is affiliated pity should be showed from his friend, or, to him who is melting on account of the fierceness of his misery, and therefore in despair, gentleness should be shown by his frien...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB CRITICIZES ELIPHAZ FOR HIS CONDUCT...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    to him that is afflicted: _ Heb._ to him that melteth...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "FOR THE DESPAIRING MAN THERE SHOULD BE KINDNESS FROM HIS FRIEND; SO THAT HE DOES NOT FORSAKE THE FEAR OF THE ALMIGHTY": Here we see the beginning of Job's disappointment in his friends. When. man is...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TO HIM THAT IS AFFLICTED, Heb. _to him that is melted or dissolved with afflictions_, or in the furnace of afflictions; that is, in extreme miseries; for such persons are said to be melted, as Psalms...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 6:14 afflicted H4523 kindness H2617 friend H7453 forsakes H5800 (H8799) fear H3374 Almighty H7706 To him -...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    FEAR (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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)

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 12:26; 2 Corinthians 11:29; Galatians 6:2; Genesis 20:11;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    To him — Heb. to him that is melted or dissolved with affections. But. &c. — But thou hast no pity for thy friend; a plain evidence that thou art guilty of what thou didst charge me with, even of the...

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