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NOW, THEREFORE, BE CONTENT - Rosenmuller has better rendered this,
“if it please you.” The sense is, “if you are willing, look upon
me.” That is, “if you are disposed, you may take a careful view of
m...
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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 appeals to his friends to give him a fair hearing. Let them look
him in the face (Job 6:28). We must imagine, says Duhm, that during
Job's speech, and especially during the last sharp sayings, the...
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The verse means as a whole,
Now, therefore, be pleased to look upon me,
I will not surely lie to your face!
"Be pleased," or, as we say, be good enough. "To your face," as in ch.
Job 1:11. Job desir...
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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...
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4. Their words are academic. Where is his sin? (Job 6:24-30)
TEXT 6:24-30
24 TEACH ME, AND I WILL HOLD MY PEACE;
And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
25 How forcible are words of uprig...
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_NOW THEREFORE BE CONTENT, LOOK UPON ME; FOR IT IS EVIDENT UNTO YOU IF
I LIE._
Be content - rather, be pleased to-look. Since you have so falsely
judged my words, look upon me - i:e., upon my counten...
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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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LOOK UPON ME] i.e. in the face. FOR _it is_ EVIDENT, etc.] RV 'For
surely I shall not lie to your face.'...
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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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Job said that he was innocent. He did not pretend that he was perfect
(Job 31:33). But Job was a genuine servant of God (Job 1:8). Job
respected God. And he refused to do evil deeds. But Job’s friends...
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NOW THEREFORE BE CONTENT to look upon me; for it will be evident unto
you if I lie; or, _for surely I shall not lie to your face.
_...
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וְ֭ עַתָּה הֹואִ֣ילוּ פְנוּ ־בִ֑י וְ
עַל
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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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Now therefore be content, (r) look upon me; for [it is] evident unto
you if I lie.
(r) Consider whether I speak as one who is driven to this impatience
through sorrow, or as a hypocrite as you condem...
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(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...
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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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NOW THEREFORE BE CONTENT,.... Or, "may it now please you" f; Job
addresses them in a respectful manner, and entreats them they would be
so kind as to look favourably on him, and entertain better thoug...
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Now therefore be content, look upon me; for [it is] evident unto you
if I lie.
Ver. 28. _Now therefore be content, look upon me_] Let it suffice you
to have thus hardly handled me; cast now a more be...
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_Now therefore be content, look upon me_ Hebrew, _Be willing; look
upon me_, or, _to look upon me_, the second imperative being put for
the infinitive. Be pleased to consider me and my cause further a...
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Now, therefore, be content, look upon me, they should be pleased to
scrutinize his face closely; FOR IT IS EVIDENT UNTO YOU IF I LIE, they
would be able to read in his face whether he were really the...
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JOB CRITICIZES ELIPHAZ FOR HIS CONDUCT...
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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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EVIDENT UNTO YOU:
_ Heb._ before your face...
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Job claims that he is not lying, in fact is he not wise enough to
detect falsehood if he was speaking it? It could be that Job's friends
were even unwilling to look Job in the face, "please look at me...
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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...
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LOOK UPON ME; be pleased either,
1. To look upon my countenance, if it betrays any fear or guilt, as if
I spoke contrary to my own conscience. Or rather,
2. To consider me and my cause further and b...
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Job 6:28 pleased H2974 (H8685) look H6437 (H8798) lie H3576 (H8762)
face H6440
evident unto you - Heb. before your face
if I lie -...
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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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_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...
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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 6:28 For the first time, Job declares that he is
innocent and deserving of VINDICATION.
⇐...
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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 11:3; Job 13:4...
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Look — Consider my cause better than you have done, that you may
give a more righteous judgment. Evident — You will plainly discover
it....