Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 6:5
Doth the (d) wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
(d) Do you think that I cry without cause, seeing the brute beasts do not complain when they have what they want.
Doth the (d) wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
(d) Do you think that I cry without cause, seeing the brute beasts do not complain when they have what they want.
Verse Job 6:5. _DOTH THE WILD ASS_] פרא _pere_, translated _onager_, by the _Vulgate_, from the ονος αγριος of the _Septuagint_, which we properly enough, translate _wild ass_. It is the same with th...
DOTH THE WILD ASS BRAY WHEN HE HATH GRASS? - On the habits of the wild ass, see the notes at Job 11:12. The meaning of Job here is, that he did not complain without reason; and this he illustrates by...
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 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...
DOTH... LOWETH... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. Only here and 1 Samuel 6:12. BRAY. Only here and Job 30:7. WHEN HE HATH. over....
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...
Job's complaints are proof of his pain, for does any creature complain when it has what its nature desires? The "braying" and "lowing" here are those expressing discontent or want. _be eaten without...
DOTH THE WILD ASS BRAY WHEN HE HATH GRASS, &C.— _Grass_ and _fodder_ here are a figure of abundance and tranquillity, such as the friends of Job enjoyed. To _bray_ and _low_ refer to expressions of gr...
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...
_DOTH THE WILD ASS BRAY WHEN HE HATH GRASS? OR LOWETH THE OX OVER HIS FODDER?_ Wild ass bray. Neither wild animals, as the wild donkey, nor tame animals, as the ox, are dissatisfied when well supplie...
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...
The animals cease their cries when their wants are satisfied....
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...
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...
הֲ יִֽנְהַק ־פֶּ֥רֶא עֲלֵי ־דֶ֑שֶׁא אִ֥ם יִגְ
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...
(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...
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...
DOTH THE WILD ASS BRAY WHEN HE HATH GRASS? OR LOWETH THE OX OVER HIS FODDER?] No, they neither of them do, when the one is in a good pasture, and the other has a sufficiency of provender; but when the...
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? Ver. 5. _Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass?_] _q.d._ Sure they do not. As if these creatures, wild or tame, want n...
_Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass?_ &c. _“Grass_ and _fodder_ here are a figure of abundance and tranquillity, such as the friends of Job enjoyed. To _bray_ and _low_ refer to expressions of...
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass, literally, "by the fresh grass"? OR LOWETH THE OX OVER HIS FODDER? That is, even an irrational beast will not groan or utter discontented cries if it is full...
JOB DEFENDS HIS DESIRE FOR DEATH...
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...
WHEN HE HATH GRASS?: _ Heb._ at grass...
"Does that not give Job cause for complaint? Surely it does, Job suggested. As. wild donkey does not bray or an ox does not low when it has food, so Job would not have complained if his situation were...
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...
Thou wonderest that my disposition and carriage is so greatly altered from what it was, JOB 4:3, but thou mayst easily learn the reason of it from the brute beasts, the ass and ox, who when they have...
Job 6:5 donkey H6501 bray H5101 (H8799) grass H1877 ox H7794 low H1600 (H8799) fodder H1098 when he hath grass
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...
_Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass?_ THE SATISFIED ASS The patriarch introduces this illustration to prove to his friends that his complainings were not in vain. His troubles were not imagin...
_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—NOTE ON JOB 6:1 Job responds to Eliphaz’s words of “comfort.” ⇐ ⇔...
_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 14:6; Joel 1:18; Psalms 104:14; Psalms 42:1...
Doth, &c. — Even the brute beasts, when they have convenient food, are quiet and contented. So it is no wonder that you complain not, who live in ease and prosperity, any more than I did, when I wante...