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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Job 6:21

Verse Job 6:21. For now ye are nothing] Ye are just to me as those deceitful torrents to the caravans of Tema and Sheba; they were nothing to them; ye are nothing to me.

Ye see my casting down] Ye see that I have been hurried from my eminence into want and misery, as the flood from the top of the mountains, which is divided, evaporated, and lost in the desert.

And are afraid.] Ye are terrified at the calamity that has come upon me; and instead of drawing near to comfort me, ye start back at my appearance.

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See also Job 6:21 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR NOW YE ARE AS NOTHING - Margin, “or, Ye are like to it, or them.” In the margin also the word “nothing” is rendered “not.” This variety arises from a difference of reading in the Hebrew text, many...

  • 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'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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _ye are nothing_ Or, _are become nothing_. Job applies his comparison. Another reading is: _ye are become it_, i. e. the deceitful, disappointing brook. The general sense remains the same. _my casting...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEY WERE CONFOUNDED BECAUSE THEY HAD HOPED; THEY CAME THITHER, AND WERE ASHAMED._ They had hoped - literally, each had hoped-namely, that their companions would find water. The greater had been the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    YE ARE NOTHING] RM 'ye are like thereto,' i.e. to the deceptive brooks. But it would be better to read 'so have ye been to me.' AND ARE AFRAID] perhaps of showing sympathy, since they thought him guil...

  • 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

    There are some streams that travellers can always trust. The water is always plentiful, even in the driest weather. When the travellers arrive at these streams, there is water for them. And there is w...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FOR NOW YE ARE NOTHING. — “Surely now ye are become like _it” i.e.,_ that wady; or, according to another reading followed in the text of the Authorised Version, “Ye have become nothing: ye have seen a...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּֽי ־עַ֭תָּה הֱיִ֣יתֶם _לֹ֑ו_† תִּֽרְא֥וּ חֲ֝תַ֗ת וַ

  • 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

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Come. Hebrew, "are good for nothing." (Calmet) --- Protestant marginal note, " like to them."_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FOR NOW YE ARE: Or, for now ye are like to them NOTHING: _ Heb._ not...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "YOU SEE. TERROR AND ARE AFRAID": "Job charges them with cowardice in withholding their sympathy from him, afraid lest they should become sharers of the calamity if they provoked God by showing sympat...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    He gives the reason why he charged them with deceitfulness, and compared them to these deceitful brooks. _Nothing_, or, _as nothing_; the note of similitude being oft understood. Heb. _as not_, i.e. y...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 6:21 see H7200 (H8799) terror H2866 afraid H3372 (H8799) ye are nothing - or, ye are like to them, Heb. to it, Job 6:15,...

  • 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

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Timothy 4:16; Isaiah 2:22; Jeremiah 17:5; Jeremiah 17:6; Jeremiah

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Nothing — You are to me as if you had never come to me; for I have no comfort from you. Afraid — You are shy of me, and afraid for yourselves, lest some further plagues should come upon me, wherein yo...

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