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Verse Job 6:19. _THE TROOPS OF TEMA LOOKED_] The _caravans_ coming
from _Tema_ are represented as arriving at those places where it was
well known torrents did descend from the mountains, and they we...
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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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TROOPS. caravans.
COMPANIES. travellers....
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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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Tema lies in the northern highlands of Arabia, towards the Syrian
desert, Isaiah 21:14; Jeremiah 25:33. On Sheba see Job 1:15....
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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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THE TROOPS OF TEMA LOOKED— Mr. Heath so translates this verse, as to
introduce the speaker using an animated prosopopoeia, or addressing
himself to the travellers: _Look for them ye troops of Tema, ye...
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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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_THE TROOPS OF TEMA LOOKED, THE COMPANIES OF SHEBA WAITED FOR THEM._
The troops - i:e., caravans. Tema, north of Arabia Deserta, near the
Syrian desert, called from Tema son of Ishmael (Genesis 25:15...
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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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THE TROOPS OF TEMA. — Fürst says of Tema that it was a tract in the
north of the Arabian Desert, on the borders of the Syrian one, where
traffic was carried on from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterrane...
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הִ֭בִּיטוּ אָרְחֹ֣ות תֵּמָ֑א
הֲלִיכֹ֥ת שְׁ֝בָ֗א קִוּוּ...
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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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The troops of Tema (l) looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
(l) They who pass by it to go into the hot countries of Arabia, think
to find water there to quench their thirst but they are de...
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_While. Till the torrents subside, when the caravans from these towns
of Arabia may pass on. Job may also address his friends, (Calmet) and
bid them consider how few had taken any notice of him. (Meno...
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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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THE TROOPS OF TEMA LOOKED,.... A city in Arabia, so called from Tema a
son of Ishmael, Genesis 25:15; these troops or companies were
travelling ones, either that travelled to Tema, or that went from
t...
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The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
Ver. 19. _The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for
them_] The troops, that is, the travellers, the caravan or co...
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_The troops of Tema looked_ This place and Sheba were both parts of
the hot and dry country of Arabia; in which waters were very scarce,
and therefore precious and desirable, especially to travellers....
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JOB CRITICIZES ELIPHAZ FOR HIS CONDUCT...
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The troops of Tema looked, the caravans of a nomadic tribe in Northern
Arabia, THE COMPANIES OF SHEBA WAITED FOR THEM, hoping to obtain water
for their parched lips. In Job's picture his friends are t...
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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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"Caravans from Tema, in northern Arabia and Sheba, in southwestern
Arabia, both known for their trading, have been lost looking for water
in the riverbeds" _(Zuck p. 38)._ His friends have been as
dis...
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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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THE TROOPS, as this word is used, GENESIS 37:25 ISAIAH 21:13. Heb.
_the ways_, put for _the travellers in the ways_, by a usual metonymy.
And so it must needs be meant here, and in the next clause, be...
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Job 6:19 caravans H734 Tema H8485 look H5027 (H8689) travelers H1979
Sheba H7614 hope H6960 (H8765)
Tema -...
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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 10:1; Ezekiel 27:22; Ezekiel 27:23; Genesis 10:7; Genesis 25:
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Tema — This place and Sheba were both parts of the hot and dry
country of Arabia, in which waters were very scarce, and therefore
precious and desirable, especially to travellers. Companies — Men
did...