George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 6:21
Come. Hebrew, "are good for nothing." (Calmet) --- Protestant marginal note, " like to them."
Come. Hebrew, "are good for nothing." (Calmet) --- Protestant marginal note, " like to them."
Verse Job 6:21. _FOR NOW YE ARE NOTHING_] Ye are just to me as those deceitful torrents to the caravans of Tema and Sheba; they were _nothing_ to them; ye are _nothing_ to me. _YE SEE_ MY _CASTING D...
FOR NOW YE ARE AS NOTHING - Margin, “or, Ye are like to it, or them.” In the margin also the word “nothing” is rendered “not.” This variety arises from a difference of reading in the Hebrew text, many...
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'S SORROWFUL DISAPPOINTMENT IN HIS FRIENDS. He begins by citing a proverb. The despairing man who is slipping from religion, looks for help and sympathy from his friends. The friends, however, have...
Job's sorrowful disappointment at the position taken up towards him by his three friends Job had freely expressed his misery in ch. 3, believing that the sympathies of his friends were entirely with...
_ye are nothing_ Or, _are become nothing_. Job applies his comparison. Another reading is: _ye are become it_, i. e. the deceitful, disappointing brook. The general sense remains the same. _my casting...
3. Bitter disappointment from his friends, who are unreasonably hard (Job 6:14-23) TEXT 6:14-23 14 TO HIM THAT IS READY TO FAINT KINDNESS _should be showed_ FROM HIS FRIEND; Even to him that forsak...
_THEY WERE CONFOUNDED BECAUSE THEY HAD HOPED; THEY CAME THITHER, AND WERE ASHAMED._ They had hoped - literally, each had hoped-namely, that their companions would find water. The greater had been the...
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...
YE ARE NOTHING] RM 'ye are like thereto,' i.e. to the deceptive brooks. But it would be better to read 'so have ye been to me.' AND ARE AFRAID] perhaps of showing sympathy, since they thought him guil...
There are some streams that travellers can always trust. The water is always plentiful, even in the driest weather. When the travellers arrive at these streams, there is water for them. And there is w...
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...
FOR NOW YE ARE NOTHING. — “Surely now ye are become like _it” i.e.,_ that wady; or, according to another reading followed in the text of the Authorised Version, “Ye have become nothing: ye have seen a...
כִּֽי ־עַ֭תָּה הֱיִ֣יתֶם _לֹ֑ו_† תִּֽרְא֥וּ חֲ֝תַ֗ת וַ
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...
For now ye are (m) nothing; ye see [my] casting down, and are afraid. (m) That is, like this brook which deceives them who think to have water there in their need, as I looked for consolation from yo...
(14) В¶ To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. (15) My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they...
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...
FOR NOW YE ARE NOTHING,.... Once they seemed to be something to him; he thought them men wise, good, and religious, kind, bountiful, and tenderhearted; but now he found them otherwise, they were nothi...
For now ye are nothing; ye see [my] casting down, and are afraid. Ver. 21. _For now ye are nothing_] _i.e._ To me nothing worth; I have no more joy of you than if you were not at all; ye are not unli...
_For now ye are nothing_, &c. Just such are you, who, seeing my calamity, afford me no comfort, and seem afraid lest I should want something of you. Thus Job very properly applies the preceding most b...
For now ye are nothing, they had shown that they did not exist as real friends; YE SEE MY CASTING DOWN, AND ARE AFRAID, full of terror and dismay, fearing to identify themselves with one whom they bel...
JOB CRITICIZES ELIPHAZ FOR HIS CONDUCT...
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...
FOR NOW YE ARE: Or, for now ye are like to them NOTHING: _ Heb._ not...
"YOU SEE. TERROR AND ARE AFRAID": "Job charges them with cowardice in withholding their sympathy from him, afraid lest they should become sharers of the calamity if they provoked God by showing sympat...
14-30 In his prosperity Job formed great expectations from his friends, but now was disappointed. This he compares to the failing of brooks in summer. Those who rest their expectations on the creatur...
He gives the reason why he charged them with deceitfulness, and compared them to these deceitful brooks. _Nothing_, or, _as nothing_; the note of similitude being oft understood. Heb. _as not_, i.e. y...
Job 6:21 see H7200 (H8799) terror H2866 afraid H3372 (H8799) ye are nothing - or, ye are like to them, Heb. to it, Job 6:15,...
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...
_To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend._ A MESSAGE TO DOUBTERS Such is the rendering of the Authorised Version; but, unfortunately, it is a rendering which misses almost enti...
_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...
2 Timothy 4:16; Isaiah 2:22; Jeremiah 17:5; Jeremiah 17:6; Jeremiah
Nothing — You are to me as if you had never come to me; for I have no comfort from you. Afraid — You are shy of me, and afraid for yourselves, lest some further plagues should come upon me, wherein yo...