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Verse Job 6:10. _THEN SHOULD I YET HAVE COMFORT_] Instead of עוד
_od_, YET, three of _Kennicott's_ and _De Rossi's_ MSS. have זאת
_zoth_, THIS. _And THIS should be my comfort_. The expectation that he...
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THEN SHOULD I YET HAVE COMFORT - Dr. Good renders this, “then would
I already take comfort.” Noyes, “yet it should still be my
consolation.” The literal sense is, “and there would be to me yet
consola...
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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 in his reply deals first of all with the charge of impatience. He
catches up the word used by Eliphaz (Job 5:2), and declares that his
impatience does but balance his calamity (Job 6:1 f.). The
dr...
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I WOULD HARDEN, &C. Occurs only here.. Let me even exult in my anguish
(should He not spare) that. have not concealed, &c....
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Job 6:1-13. Job defends the violence of his complaints and his despair
Eliphaz had made no reference directly to sin on Job's part; but he
drew dark pictures of the evilness of human nature before th...
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This verse reads,
And I should yet have my comfort,
And I would leap (for joy) amidst unsparing pain;
For I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
His comfort or consolation that he would have...
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THEN SHOULD I YET HAVE COMFORT, &C.— _So should my cry still be;
nay, I would raise it louder in proportion to my sufferings: let him
not spare, for I dispute not the will_ (or _words_) _of the Holy O...
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2. In his wasted condition, death is desirable. (Job 6:8-13)
TEXT 6:8-13
8 OH THAT I MIGHT HAVE MY REQUEST;
And that God would grant _me_ THE THING THAT I LONG FOR!
9 Even that it would please God...
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_THEN SHOULD I YET HAVE COMFORT; YEA, I WOULD HARDEN MYSELF IN SORROW:
LET HIM NOT SPARE; FOR I HAVE NOT CONCEALED THE WORDS OF THE HOLY
ONE._
I would harden myself - rather, 'I would exult х_ CAALAD...
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6:10 that (g-17) Or 'for.'...
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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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YEA, I WOULD, etc.] RV 'Yea, I would exult in pain that spareth not:
for I have not denied,' etc. Job fears not death, for he is
unconscious of sin towards God. The passage is difficult, since J ob
do...
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Job did not want to die because of his pain. He totally trusted God to
do the right things (Job 1:21).
In fact, Job wanted to die because he was afraid about his own words.
Job did not want to insult...
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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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CONCEALED — _i.e.,_ denied. The same was the confidence of the
Psalmist (Psalms 40:9). (Comp. Acts 20:20.)...
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וּ֥ תְהִי עֹ֨וד ׀ נֶ֘חָ֤מָתִ֗י וַ
אֲסַלְּדָ֣ה...
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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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Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow:
let him not spare; (g) for I have not concealed the words of the Holy
One.
(g) That is, let me die at once before I come to distr...
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(8) В¶ Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me
the thing that I long for! (9) Even that it would please God to
destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! (10)
T...
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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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THEN SHOULD I YET HAVE COMFORT,.... Either before death, and in the
midst of all his pains and sorrows, being in view of it as near at
hand, and sure and certain; could he but be assured of its near
a...
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Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow:
let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
Ver. 10. _Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would har...
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_Then should I yet have comfort_ The thoughts of my approaching death
would comfort me in all my sorrows, and yield me abundantly more
solace than life, with all that worldly safety, and glory, and
ha...
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Then should I yet have comfort, he would find consolation in this
fact; YEA, I WOULD HARDEN MYSELF IN SORROW. LET HIM NOT SPARE, rather,
"I would leap up in unsparing pain," due to its excessive force...
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JOB DEFENDS HIS DESIRE FOR DEATH...
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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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8-13 Job had desired death as the happy end of his miseries. For
this, Eliphaz had reproved him, but he asks for it again with more
vehemence than before. It was very rash to speak thus of God
destro...
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The thoughts of my approaching death would comfort me in all my
sorrows. This would solace me more than life, with all that worldly
safety, and glory, and happiness which thou hast advised me to seek...
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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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_I have not concealed the words of the Holy One._
CONCEALING THE WORDS OF GOD
1. The testimony of a good conscience is the best ground of our
willingness to die.
2. The counsels of God, His truths,...
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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 Samuel 2:2; 2 Peter 2:4; 2 Peter 2:5; Acts 20:20; Acts 20:27;...
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Harden — I would bear up with courage under all my torments, with
the hopes of death, and blessedness after death. Spare — Not suffer
me to live any longer. Concealed — As I have steadfastly believed...