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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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_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...
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6:14 fainting (a-5) Or 'despairing.'...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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לַ † מָּ֣ס מֵ רֵעֵ֣הוּ חָ֑סֶד וְ...
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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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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'...
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_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...
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_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...
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JOB CRITICIZES ELIPHAZ FOR HIS CONDUCT...
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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...
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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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to him that is afflicted:
_ Heb._ to him that melteth...
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"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...
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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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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...
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Job 6:14 afflicted H4523 kindness H2617 friend H7453 forsakes H5800
(H8799) fear H3374 Almighty H7706
To him -...
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FEAR
(_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...
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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 6:1 Job responds to Eliphaz’s words of
“comfort.”
⇐ ⇔...
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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
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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 Corinthians 12:26; 2 Corinthians 11:29; Galatians 6:2; Genesis
20:11;...
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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...