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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 6:4

It is because he feels that his troubles are due to God that he is almost beside himself, since he cannot understand their motive. In Job 3 he had not charged God with being the author of his sorrows.

5-7. Job continues to assert that he would not complain without good cause.

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See also Job 6:4 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 6:4. _THE ARROWS OF THE ALMIGHTY_] There is an evident reference here to _wounds inflicted by poisoned arrows_; and to the burning fever occasioned by such _wounds_, producing such an inten...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THE ARROWS OF THE ALMIGHTY ARE WITHIN ME - That is, it is not a light affliction that I endure. I am wounded in a manner which could not be caused by man - called to endure a severity of suffering...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ARROWS. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. Compare Deuteronomy 32:23; Deuteronomy 32:42.Psalms 38:2.Ezekiel 5:16;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the arrows of the Almighty_ This explains his bearing and excuses it. Everywhere Job says that it is not his afflictions in themselves that terrify him, it is that they come from God; it is the moral...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE TERRORS OF GOD, &C.— _The terrors of the Lord confound me._ Houbigant. "This," says one, "is uttered by the patient man, when he would excuse his passion by the terror and agony that he was in. He...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _FOR THE ARROWS OF THE ALMIGHTY ARE WITHIN ME, THE POISON WHEREOF DRINKETH UP MY SPIRIT: THE TERRORS OF GOD DO SET THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AGAINST ME._ Arrows ... within me - have pierced me. A poetic im...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job thought that God caused Job’s troubles. Job did not realise that the devil caused these troubles....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE POISON WHEREOF DRINKETH UP MY SPIRIT. — Rather, _the poison whereof my spirit imbibeth,_ the rendering of the Authorised Version being ambiguous. DO SET THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AGAINST ME. — Like host...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֤י חִצֵּ֪י שַׁדַּ֡י עִמָּדִ֗י אֲשֶׁ֣ר חֲ֭מָתָם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do (c) set themselves in array against me. (c) Which declares that he was not only afflict...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Rage. Hebrew, "poison," (Haydock) or "venom;" (Chaldean; Menochius) as it was customary to use poisoned arrows. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "When I begin to speak, they pierce me. For what! Does the wild...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THE ARROWS OF THE ALMIGHTY [ARE] WITHIN ME,.... Which are a reason proving the weight and heaviness of his affliction, and also of his hot and passionate expressions he broke out into; which desig...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. Ver. 4. _For the arrows of the Almighty are within...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The arrows of the Almighty are within me_, &c. The sublimity of style, and beautiful vein of poetry, which run through this verse, are well deserving of the reader's particular attention. He fitly te...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB DEFENDS HIS DESIRE FOR DEATH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the sickness, pains, and plagues which God inflicted upon him, THE POISON WHEREOF DRINKETH UP MY SPIRIT, like a venom whose burning heat dried up his soul...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "FOR THE ARROWS OF THE ALMIGHTY ARE WITHIN ME": Job now names God as the author of his misery. Like Eliphaz he believes that God punishes, but he rejects the idea that this suffering is deserved. "To...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    ARROWS; so he fitly calls his afflictions, because, like arrows, they came upon him swiftly and suddenly, one after another, and that from on high, and they wounded him deeply and deadly. OF THE ALMIG...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 6:4 arrows H2671 Almighty H7706 within H5978 spirit H7307 drinks H8354 (H8802) poison H2534 terrors H1161 God...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For the arrows of the Almighty are within me._ SHARP ARROWS Arrows are-- 1. Swift. 2. Secret. 3. Sharp. 4. Killing. (_J. Caryl._) THE POISONED ARROWS OF THE ALMIGHTY By “poisoned arrows” we mu...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 6:1 Job responds to Eliphaz’s words of “comfort.” ⇐ ⇔...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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)

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 5:11; Deuteronomy 32:23; Deuteronomy 32:24; Deuteronomy 32:42;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Arrows — So he fitly calls his afflictions, because, like arrows, they came upon him swiftly and suddenly one after another, immediately shot by God into his spirit. Poison — Implying that these arrow...

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