Then should I yet have comfort, he would find consolation in this fact; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow. Let Him not spare, rather, "I would leap up in unsparing pain," due to its excessive force which promised him no respite; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. The fact that he had not denied the Lord was Job's confidence in the midst of all distress and misery, even if the pain it caused him should be practically unbearable.
Verse Job 6:10. _THEN SHOULD I YET HAVE COMFORT_] Instead of עוד _od_, YET, three of _Kennicott's_ and _De Rossi's_ MSS. have זאת _zoth_, THIS. _And THIS should be my comfort_. The expectation that he...
THEN SHOULD I YET HAVE COMFORT - Dr. Good renders this, “then would I already take comfort.” Noyes, “yet it should still be my consolation.” The literal sense is, “and there would be to me yet consola...
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 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...
I WOULD HARDEN, &C. Occurs only here.. Let me even exult in my anguish (should He not spare) that. have not concealed, &c....
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...
This verse reads, And I should yet have my comfort, And I would leap (for joy) amidst unsparing pain; For I have not denied the words of the Holy One. His comfort or consolation that he would have...
THEN SHOULD I YET HAVE COMFORT, &C.— _So should my cry still be; nay, I would raise it louder in proportion to my sufferings: let him not spare, for I dispute not the will_ (or _words_) _of the Holy O...
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...
_THEN SHOULD I YET HAVE COMFORT; YEA, I WOULD HARDEN MYSELF IN SORROW: LET HIM NOT SPARE; FOR I HAVE NOT CONCEALED THE WORDS OF THE HOLY ONE._ I would harden myself - rather, 'I would exult х_ CAALAD...
6:10 that (g-17) Or 'for.'...
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...
YEA, I WOULD, etc.] RV 'Yea, I would exult in pain that spareth not: for I have not denied,' etc. Job fears not death, for he is unconscious of sin towards God. The passage is difficult, since J ob do...
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...
Job did not want to die because of his pain. He totally trusted God to do the right things (Job 1:21). In fact, Job wanted to die because he was afraid about his own words. Job did not want to insult...
CONCEALED — _i.e.,_ denied. The same was the confidence of the Psalmist (Psalms 40:9). (Comp. Acts 20:20.)...
וּ֥ תְהִי עֹ֨וד ׀ נֶ֘חָ֤מָתִ֗י וַ אֲסַלְּדָ֣ה...
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...
Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; (g) for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. (g) That is, let me die at once before I come to distr...
(8) В¶ 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 to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! (10) T...
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...
THEN SHOULD I YET HAVE COMFORT,.... Either before death, and in the midst of all his pains and sorrows, being in view of it as near at hand, and sure and certain; could he but be assured of its near a...
Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. Ver. 10. _Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would har...
_Then should I yet have comfort_ The thoughts of my approaching death would comfort me in all my sorrows, and yield me abundantly more solace than life, with all that worldly safety, and glory, and ha...
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...
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 destro...
The thoughts of my approaching death would comfort me in all my sorrows. This would solace me more than life, with all that worldly safety, and glory, and happiness which thou hast advised me to seek...
Job 6:10 comfort H5165 anguish H2427 exult H5539 (H8762) spare H2550 (H8799) concealed H3582 (H8765) words...
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...
_I have not concealed the words of the Holy One._ CONCEALING THE WORDS OF GOD 1. The testimony of a good conscience is the best ground of our willingness to die. 2. The counsels of God, His truths,...
_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...
1 Samuel 2:2; 2 Peter 2:4; 2 Peter 2:5; Acts 20:20; Acts 20:27;...
Harden — I would bear up with courage under all my torments, with the hopes of death, and blessedness after death. Spare — Not suffer me to live any longer. Concealed — As I have steadfastly believed...