Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Job 6:23
Verse Job 6:23. Or, Deliver me] Did I send to you to come and avenge me of the destroyers of my property, or to rescue my substance out of the hands of my enemies?
Verse Job 6:23. Or, Deliver me] Did I send to you to come and avenge me of the destroyers of my property, or to rescue my substance out of the hands of my enemies?
OR, DELIVER ME OUT OF THE ENEMY’S HAND? - At no time have I called on you to rescue me from a foe. OR, REDEEM ME? - That is, rescue me from the hand of robbers. The meaning is, that he was in no way b...
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...
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...
MIGHTY. adversary. Compare Job 1. and Job 2....
_hand of the mighty_ that is, the powerful robber, who held his captives to ransom....
He had not asked anything very great from his friends, which would have been too severe a strain on their friendship, only sympathy, and straightforward dealing, and that they should consider him the...
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...
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...
_OR, DELIVER ME FROM THE ENEMY'S HAND? OR, REDEEM ME FROM THE HAND OF THE MIGHTY?_ The mighty - the oppressor, or creditor in whose power the debtor was (Umbreit)....
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...
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...
Job knew that his friends could not help him. His troubles were too great. His friends’ money could not help him. And they could not defend him. They were too late. Job’s trouble had already happened...
וּ מַלְּט֥וּנִי מִ יַּד ־צָ֑ר וּ מִ
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...
“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,...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
OR, DELIVER ME FROM THE ENEMIES' HAND?.... Or, "out of the hand of straitness" c; out of tribulation and difficulties with which he was pressed on every side: OR REDEEM ME FROM THE HAND OF THE MIGHTY...
Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? Ver. 23. Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? &c.] Rescue me, ransom me from those that have robbed and wronged me; f...
_Did I say_ Or, is it _because I said; Bring unto me?_ Give me something for my support or relief? Is this, or what else is the reason why you are afraid of me, or alienated from me? Did either my for...
Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty, of the oppressor? He had never yet asked for such a proof of their friendship; therefore he was all the more sorely dis...
JOB CRITICIZES ELIPHAZ FOR HIS CONDUCT...
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...
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...
DELIVER ME by power and the force of your arms, as Abraham delivered Lot. REDEEM ME by price, or ransom....
Job 6:23 Deliver H4422 (H8761) enemys H6862 hand H3027 Redeem H6299 (H8799) hand H3027 oppressors H6184 Redee
REDEEM See note; (Exodus 14:30); (Isaiah 59:20). (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 14:30). _ ( See Scofield) - (Isa
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...
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...
_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...
_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....
_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...
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)
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...
Jeremiah 15:21; Job 5:20; Leviticus 25:48; Nehemiah 5:8; Psalms 107:2
Deliver — By the force of your arms, as Abraham delivered Lot. Redeem — By price or ransom....