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Verse Job 6:13. IS _NOT MY HELP IN ME?_] My help is all in myself;
and, alas! that is perfect weakness: _and my subsistence_, תושיה
tushiyah, all that is _real, stable_, and _permanent, is driven_
_qu...
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IS NOT MY HELP IN ME? - This would be better rendered in an
affirmative manner, or as an exclamation. The interrogative form of
the previous verses need not be continued in this. The sense is,
“alas!...
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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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WISDOM. stability. See note on Proverbs 2:7....
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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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IS NOT MY HELP IN ME? &C.— Or, _because my help is not at hand, is
wisdom therefore departed far from me?_ Houbigant. Heath renders it,
_Do not I find that I cannot in the least help myself, and that...
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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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_IS NOT MY HELP IN ME? AND IS WISDOM DRIVEN QUITE FROM ME?_
Is not my help in me? The interrogation is better omitted. 'There is
no help in me!' For "wisdom," deliverance х_ TUWSHIYAAH_ (H8454)] is
a...
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6:13 soundness (i-12) Or 'capacity.'...
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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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IS NOT MY HELP IN ME? — It is in passages such as these that the
actual meaning of Job is so obscure and his words so difficult. The
sense may be, “Is it not that I have no help in me, and wisdom is
d...
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הַ אִ֬ם אֵ֣ין עֶזְרָתִ֣י בִ֑י וְ֝
תֻשִׁיָּ֗ה נִדְּחָ֥ה מִמֶּֽנִּי׃...
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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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[Is] not my (i) help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
(i) Have I not sought to help myself as much as was possible?...
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_Myself. "Have I not placed my trust in him?" God alone. (Haydock) ---
All my other friends have abandoned me, ver. 15. (Calmet) --- Can they
wonder if I express my grief? (Haydock) --- Familiar. Hebr...
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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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[IS] MY HELP IN ME?.... Or "my defence" y, as some; is it not in my
power to defend myself against the calumnies and reproaches cast upon
me? it is; and, though one have no help in myself to bear my b...
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Job 6:13 [Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
Ver. 13. _Is not my help in me?_] Have I not something within
wherewith to sustain me amidst all my sorrows, viz. the testimony of...
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_Is not my help in me?_ Though I have no strength in my body, or
outward man, yet I have some help and support within me, or in my
inward man, even a consciousness of my sincerity toward God,
notwiths...
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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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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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Though I have no strength in my body, or outward man, yet I have some
help and support within me, or in my inward man, even the conscience
of my own innocency and piety, notwithstanding all your bitte...
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Job 6:13 help H5833 success H8454 driven H5080 (H8738)
Is not my - Job 19:28; 2 Corinthians 1:12; Galatians 6:4
and is wisdom - Job 12:2-3, Job 13:2...
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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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2 Corinthians 1:12; Galatians 6:4; Job 12:2; Job 12:3; Job 13:2; Job
19:28...
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What, &c. — If my outward condition be helpless and hopeless? Have I
therefore lost my understanding, cannot I judge whether it is more
desirable for me to live or to die, whether I be an hypocrite or...