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THE THINGS THAT MY SOUL REFUSED TO TOUCH - That I refused to touch -
the word “soul” here being used to denote himself. The idea here
is, that those things which formerly were objects of loathing to h...
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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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SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.
MEAT. bread. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species), App-6, put
for all kinds of food....
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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 may be rendered not quite literally,
My soul refuseth to touch them!
Such things are like loathsome food to me.
Literally, _like my corrupted_, or, _diseased food_. Job does not name
his...
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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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_THE THINGS THAT MY SOUL REFUSED TO TOUCH ARE AS MY SORROWFUL MEAT._
To touch is contrasted with meat. 'My taste refused even to touch it,
and yet am I fed with such meat of sickness.' The second cla...
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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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RV 'My soul refuseth to touch _them_ They are as loathsome meat to
me.' Job 6:6 may mean that Job's afllictions are as intolerable to him
as loathsome food.
8-10. Job longs for the stroke of death to...
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A farm animal might be noisy when it needs food. Such an animal is
complaining because it is hungry. When Job spoke, he too made a noise.
When he spoke, Job was complaining like the hungry animal. But...
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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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מֵאֲנָ֣ה לִ נְגֹּ֣ועַ נַפְשִׁ֑י
הֵ֝֗מָּה כִּ...
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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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(5) Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over
his fodder? (6) Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or
is there any taste in the white of an egg? (7) The things tha...
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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 THINGS [THAT] MY SOUL REFUSED TO TOUCH [ARE] AS MY SORROWFUL MEAT.
Meaning either the above things, that which is unsavoury, and the
white of an egg, of any other food, which in the time of his
pr...
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The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat.
Ver. 7. _The things that my soul refused to touch, &c._] I suffer
such torments even in my very soul, as the very thought of the...
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_The things that my soul refused_, &c. “Job, persisting in his
allegory,” says Schultens, “goes on to show how disagreeable to
his stomach the speech of Eliphaz had been.” This learned critic
accordin...
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JOB DEFENDS HIS DESIRE FOR DEATH...
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The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat, or,
What my soul abhorred to touch, that is to me as my loathsome food; he
had to smell and touch the putrid matter of leprosy day af...
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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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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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Heb. _As the sicknesses or sorrows of my meat_, i.e. as my sorrowful
meat, which I am constrained to eat with grief of heart. The particle
_as_, either,
1. Notes not the similitude, but the truth of t...
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Job 6:7 soul H5315 refuses H3985 (H8765) touch H5060 (H8800) loathsome
H1741 food H3899
as my sorrowful meat -...
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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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_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 17:12; 1 Kings 22:27; Daniel 10:3; Ezekiel 12:18; Ezekiel
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The things, &c. — The sense may be, those grievous afflictions,
which I dreaded the very thought of, are now my daily, though
sorrowful bread....