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Verse Job 6:2. _O THAT MY GRIEF WERE THOROUGHLY WEIGHED_] Job wished
to be dealt with according to justice; as he was willing that his
sins, if they could be proved, should be weighed against his
suf...
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O THAT MY GRIEF WERE THOROUGHLY WEIGHED - The word rendered
“grief” here (כעשׂ _ka‛aś_) may mean either vexation,
trouble, grief; Ecclesiastes 1:18; Ecclesiastes 2:23; or it may mean
anger;...
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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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OH. Figure of speech _Ecphonesis._ App-6.
MY GRIEF: i.e. the cause of my grief....
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_my grief_ Rather, MY IMPATIENCE (ch. Job 4:2). The word expresses the
whole demeanour which in ch. 3, and to the eyes of his friends, he
shews under his trouble. He desires that it were weighed and a...
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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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C.
SEARCH FOR COMFORT AND JOB'S CONFRONTATION WITH GOD (Job 6:1, Job
7:21)
1. There is adequate reason for his complaint. (Job 6:1-7)
TEXT 6:1-7
6 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,
2 Oh that my vexation...
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_OH THAT MY GRIEF WERE THROUGHLY WEIGHED, AND MY CALAMITY LAID IN THE
BALANCES TOGETHER!_
Throughly weighed. Oh that, instead of censuring my complaints, when
thou oughtest rather to have sympathized...
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6:2 all (e-9) Lit. 'together.'...
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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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A heavy weight is a great strain for the person who must carry it. And
Job’s troubles were a terrible strain for Job. Job spoke because of
this strain. And Job was not sure that his words were correct...
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ל֗וּ שָׁקֹ֣ול יִשָּׁקֵ֣ל כַּעְשִׂ֑י
_וְ֝_†_הַוָּתִ֗י_† בְּֽ...
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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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Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the
(a) balances together!
(a To know whether I complain without just cause....
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My sins, &c. In the Hebrew my wrath. He does not mean to compare his
sufferings with his real sins; but with the imaginary crimes which his
friends falsely imputed to him: and especially with his wrat...
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(1) В¶ But Job answered and said, (2) Oh that my grief were
throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! (3)
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my
wor...
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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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OH THAT MY GRIEF WERE THOROUGHLY WEIGHED,.... Or, "in weighing
weighed" u, most nicely and exactly weighed; that is, his grievous
affliction, which caused so much grief of heart, and which had been
sh...
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Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the
balances together!
Ver. 2. _Oh that my grief were throughly weighed_] Heb. Were weighed
by weighing. The word rendered grief signi...
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_O that my grief_ The cause of my grief; _were thoroughly weighed_
Were fully understood and duly considered! O that I had an impartial
judge! that would understand my case, and see whether I have not...
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JOB DEFENDS HIS DESIRE FOR DEATH...
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Oh, that my grief were throughly weighed, namely, the suffering which
he was enduring, AND MY CALAMITY, the bitter and unexplainable
affliction, LAID IN THE BALANCES TOGETHER! Both pans being thus
adj...
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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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LAID:
_ Heb._ lifted up...
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1-7 Job still justifies himself in his complaints. In addition to
outward troubles, the inward sense of God's wrath took away all his
courage and resolution. The feeling sense of the wrath of God is...
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MY GRIEF; either,
1. My calamity, as it follows, or the cause or matter of my grief; the
act being put for the object, as is usual, _fear for the thing
feared_, &c., and the same thing being here rep...
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Job 6:2 Oh H3863 grief H3708 fully H8254 (H8800) weighed H8254 (H8735)
calamity H1942 (H8675)...
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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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_Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed._
HEAPING UP ONE SCALE
We have no objection to weigh all Job’s griefs. But what shall we
put in the other scale? He who counts the hairs of our head, and pu...
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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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Job 23:2; Job 4:5...
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My grief — The cause of my grief. Weighed — Were fully understood,
and duly considered. O that I had an equal judge! that would
understand my case, and consider whether I have not cause for
complaints...