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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...
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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...
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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 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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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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The animals cease their cries when their wants are satisfied....
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
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CHAPTER 6
JOB REPLIES TO ELIPHAZ’S...
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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...
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הֲ יִֽנְהַק ־פֶּ֥רֶא עֲלֵי ־דֶ֑שֶׁא
אִ֥ם יִגְ
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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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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....
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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JOB DEFENDS HIS DESIRE FOR DEATH...
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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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WHEN HE HATH GRASS?:
_ Heb._ at grass...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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Job 6:5 donkey H6501 bray H5101 (H8799) grass H1877 ox H7794 low H1600
(H8799) fodder H1098
when he hath grass
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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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_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...
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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 6:1 Job responds to Eliphaz’s words of
“comfort.”
⇐ ⇔...
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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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Jeremiah 14:6; Joel 1:18; Psalms 104:14; Psalms 42:1...
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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...