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Verse Job 6:11. _WHAT_ IS _MY STRENGTH_] I can never suppose that my
strength will be restored; and, were that possible, have I any
comfortable prospect of a happy termination of my life? Had I any
pr...
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WHAT IS MY STRENGTH, THAT I SHOULD HOPE? - Job had hitherto borne his
trials without apprehension that he would lose his constancy of hope,
or his confidence in God. He here seems to apprehend that hi...
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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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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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AND WHAT IS MINE END, &C.?— Or, _what is mine end, that I should
wish it to be deferred?_ Houbigant....
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2. In his wasted condition, death is desirable. (Job 6:8-13)
TEXT 6:8-13
8 OH THAT I MIGHT HAVE MY REQUEST;
And that God would grant _me_ THE THING THAT I LONG FOR!
9 Even that it would please God...
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_WHAT IS MY STRENGTH, THAT I SHOULD HOPE? AND WHAT IS MINE END, THAT I
SHOULD PROLONG MY LIFE?_
What is my strength - so as to warrant the hope of restoration to
health? a hope which Eliphaz had sugg...
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6:11 patience? (h-18) Lit. 'lengthen out my soul' or 'life.'...
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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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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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PROLONG MY LIFE. — This is the literal rendering; but some
understand _be patient,_ as in our phrase, _long-_suffering....
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מַה ־כֹּחִ֥י כִֽי ־אֲיַחֵ֑ל וּ מַה
־קִּ֝צִּ֗י כִּֽי ־אַאֲרִ֥יךְ
נַפְשִֽׁי׃...
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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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What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine (h) end,
that I should prolong my life?
(h) He fears lest he should be brought to inconveniences, if his
sorrows should continue....
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_End. Septuagint, "time." I am too weak and short-lived to bear all
this. (Haydock) --- I can perceive no end. (Menochius) --- Keep.
Protestants, "prolong my life." (Haydock) --- "What is the extent o...
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(11) What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end,
that I should prolong my life? (12) Is my strength the strength of
stones? or is my flesh of brass? (13) Is not my help in me? and i...
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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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WHAT [IS] MY STRENGTH, THAT I SHOULD HOPE?.... For a perfect
restoration of health, suggested by Eliphaz; since it was so sadly
weakened by the present affliction, which made death more desirable
than...
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What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine end,
that I should prolong my life?
Ver. 11. _What is my strength, that I should hope?_] _q.d._ Thou hast
told me, O Eliphaz, that if I f...
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_What is my strength that I should hope?_ My strength is so small and
spent, that although I may linger a while in my torments, yet I cannot
live long, and therefore it is vain for me to hope for such...
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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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"WHAT IS MY STRENGTH, THAT. SHOULD WAIT?" Job can endure no more. This
is. response to Eliphaz's exhortation to repent and receive blessings
(Job 5:18ff). JOB 6:12 "IS MY STRENGTH THE STRENGTH OF STON...
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8-13 Job had desired death as the happy end of his miseries. For this,
Eliphaz had reproved him, but he asks for it again with more vehemence
than before. It was very rash to speak thus of God destroy...
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My strength is so small and spent, that although I may linger a while
in my torments, yet I cannot live long, and therefore it is vain and
absurd for me to hope for such a restitution of my strength a...
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Job 6:11 strength H3581 hope H3176 (H8762) end H7093 prolong H748
(H8686) life H5315
What - Job 7:5-7, Job 10:20, Job 13:25, Job 13:28, Job 17:1, Job
17:14-16;
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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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_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) a...
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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 day...
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Job 10:20; Job 13:25; Job 13:28; Job 17:1; Job 17:14; Job 7:5; Psalms
102:23; Psalms 103:14; Psalms 39:5; Psalms 90:5...
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Strength — My strength is so spent, that it is vain for me to hope
for such restitution as thou hast promised me, Job 5:22. End — What
is death to me? It is not terrible, but comfortable. That — Then...