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Verse Job 6:4. _THE ARROWS OF THE ALMIGHTY_] There is an evident
reference here to _wounds inflicted by poisoned arrows_; and to the
burning fever occasioned by such _wounds_, producing such an inten...
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FOR THE ARROWS OF THE ALMIGHTY ARE WITHIN ME - That is, it is not a
light affliction that I endure. I am wounded in a manner which could
not be caused by man - called to endure a severity of suffering...
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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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ARROWS. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. Compare Deuteronomy
32:23; Deuteronomy 32:42.Psalms 38:2.Ezekiel 5:16; Zechariah 9:14.
THE ALMIGHTY. Hebrew Shaddai. App-4.
DRINKETH. draineth.
SP...
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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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THE TERRORS OF GOD, &C.— _The terrors of the Lord confound me._
Houbigant. "This," says one, "is uttered by the patient man, when he
would excuse his passion by the terror and agony that he was in. He...
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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 vexatio...
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_FOR THE ARROWS OF THE ALMIGHTY ARE WITHIN ME, THE POISON WHEREOF
DRINKETH UP MY SPIRIT: THE TERRORS OF GOD DO SET THEMSELVES IN ARRAY
AGAINST ME._
Arrows ... within me - have pierced me. A poetic im...
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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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THE POISON WHEREOF DRINKETH UP MY SPIRIT. — Rather, _the poison
whereof my spirit imbibeth,_ the rendering of the Authorised Version
being ambiguous.
DO SET THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AGAINST ME. — Like hos...
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כִּ֤י חִצֵּ֪י שַׁדַּ֡י עִמָּדִ֗י
אֲשֶׁ֣ר חֲ֭מָתָם שֹׁתָ֣ה רוּחִ֑י
בִּעוּתֵ֖י אֱלֹ֣והַּ יַֽעַרְכֽוּנִי׃...
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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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For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof
drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do (c) set themselves in
array against me.
(c) Which declares that he was not only afflict...
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_Rage. Hebrew, "poison," (Haydock) or "venom;" (Chaldean; Menochius)
as it was customary to use poisoned arrows. (Calmet) --- Septuagint,
"When I begin to speak, they pierce me. For what! Does the wil...
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(1) В¶ But Job answered and said, (2) Oh that my grief were
throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! (3)
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my
wor...
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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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FOR THE ARROWS OF THE ALMIGHTY [ARE] WITHIN ME,.... Which are a reason
proving the weight and heaviness of his affliction, and also of his
hot and passionate expressions he broke out into; which desig...
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For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof
drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array
against me.
Ver. 4. _For the arrows of the Almighty are within...
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_The arrows of the Almighty are within me_, &c. The sublimity of
style, and beautiful vein of poetry, which run through this verse, are
well deserving of the reader's particular attention. He fitly te...
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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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"FOR THE ARROWS OF THE ALMIGHTY ARE WITHIN ME": Job now names God as
the author of his misery. Like Eliphaz he believes that God punishes,
but he rejects the idea that this suffering is deserved. "To...
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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
h...
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ARROWS; so he fitly calls his afflictions, because, like arrows, they
came upon him swiftly and suddenly, one after another, and that from
on high, and they wounded him deeply and deadly. OF THE ALMIG...
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Job 6:4 arrows H2671 Almighty H7706 within H5978 spirit H7307 drinks
H8354 (H8802) poison H2534 terrors H1161 God H433 arrayed H6186
(H8799)
the arrows - Job 16:12-14; Deuteronomy 32:23, Deuteronomy...
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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 5:11; Deuteronomy 32:23; Deuteronomy 32:24; Deuteronomy
32:42; Job 16:12; Job 30:15; Job 31:23; Job 9:17; Lamentations 3:12;...
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Arrows — So he fitly calls his afflictions, because, like arrows,
they came upon him swiftly and suddenly one after another, immediately
shot by God into his spirit. Poison — Implying that these arrow...