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Verse Job 6:30. _IS THERE INIQUITY IN MY TONGUE?_] Am I not an
_honest_ man? and if in my haste my tongue had uttered _falsity_,
would not my conscience discern it? and do you think that such a man
as...
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IS THERE INIQUITY IN MY TONGUE? - This is a solemn appeal to their
consciences, and their own deep conviction that he was sincere.
Iniquity in the tongue means falsehood, deceit, hypocrisy - that whic...
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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 appeals to his friends to give him a fair hearing. Let them look
him in the face (Job 6:28). We must imagine, says Duhm, that during
Job's speech, and especially during the last sharp sayings, the...
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IS THERE... ? CANNOT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
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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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In Job 6:28 Job asseverated that he spoke truth in affirming his
innocence. In Job 6:29 he affirmed that he had right on his side in
his plea against God, in other words that he was wrongly afflicted....
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IS THERE INIQUITY IN MY TONGUE, &C.— _Must there needs be perversity
in my tongue, because my palate cannot relish misery?_ Heath.
REFLECTIONS.—1st, Having heard with patient attention the discourse...
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4. Their words are academic. Where is his sin? (Job 6:24-30)
TEXT 6:24-30
24 TEACH ME, AND I WILL HOLD MY PEACE;
And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
25 How forcible are words of uprig...
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_IS THERE INIQUITY IN MY TONGUE? CANNOT MY TASTE DISCERN PERVERSE
THINGS?_ INIQUITY IN MY TONGUE. Will you say that my guilt lies in the
organ of speech, and will you call it to account? or is it that...
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6:30 taste (c-9) Lit. 'palate.' see ch. 12.11....
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IS THERE INIQUITY, etc.] rather, 'Is my tongue perverted?'CANNOT MY
TASTE, etc.] 'Cannot I distinguish between right and wrong as well as
you can?'...
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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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Job said that he was innocent. He did not pretend that he was perfect
(Job 31:33). But Job was a genuine servant of God (Job 1:8). Job
respected God. And he refused to do evil deeds. But Job’s friends...
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IS THERE INIQUITY? — Or, _injustice in my tongue? Is my taste so
perverted that it cannot perceive what is perverse?_ “Ye appear to
think that I am wholly incapable of judging my own cause because it...
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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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_Mouth. He engages their attention. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "Cannot my
taste discern perverse things," (Protestants; Haydock) or "the evil"
which I endure? My complaints are not surely unfounded. (Calmet...
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REFLECTIONS
READER! let us ponder over the situation, in which the HOLY GHOST hath
represented Job in this chapter, and gather from it those precious
instructions, which we may humbly suppose, the LO...
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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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IS THERE INIQUITY IN MY TONGUE?.... Meaning in his words; either those
which he uttered when he cursed the day on which he was born, or in
charging his friends with unkindness and falsehood; otherwise...
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Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse
things?
Ver. 30. _Is there iniquity in my tongue?_] Yea, or else you shall
pass for a perfect man, and well able to bridle the whole b...
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_Is there iniquity in my tongue?_ Consider, if there be any iniquity,
or untruth, in what I have already said, or shall further speak? Have
I hitherto uttered any thing that is faulty? _Cannot my tast...
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Is there iniquity in my tongue? Had he actually, thus far in his
complaint, spoken wrong? CANNOT MY TASTE DISCERN PERVERSE THINGS? Was
his palate, figuratively speaking, in such a poor condition that...
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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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MY TASTE:
_ Heb._ my palate...
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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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Consider again, and more thoroughly examine, if there be any untruth
or iniquity in what I have already said, or shall further speak to
you. MY TASTE. i.e. my judgment, which discerns and judgeth of w...
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Job 6:30 there H3426 injustice H5766 tongue H3956 taste H2441 discern
H995 (H8799) unsavory H1942
iniquity -...
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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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_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 6:28 For the first time, Job declares that he is
innocent and deserving of VINDICATION.
⇐...
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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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Hebrews 5:14; Job 12:11; Job 33:8; Job 34:3; Job 42:3;...
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Is there — Consider if there be any untruth or iniquity in what I
have already said, or shall farther speak. Taste — My judgment,
which judgeth of words and actions, as the palate doth of meats....