Even that it would please God to destroy me, snuffing out his life by an early death; that He would let loose His hand and cut me off! The picture is that of the cutting of a cord or string, which was synonymous with death. It was an intense, an impatient desire for death.
Verse Job 6:9. _LET LOOSE HIS HAND_] A metaphor taken from _an archer_ _drawing his arrow to the head_, and then _loosing his hold_, that _the_ _arrow may fly to the mark_. See on Job 6:4....
EVEN THAT IT WOULD PLEASE GOD TO DESTROY ME - To put me to death, and to release me from my sorrows; compare Job 3:20. The word rendered “destroy” here (דכא _dâkâ'_) means properly to break in piece...
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...
DESTROY. crush....
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...
So keenly does Job realize the loathsomeness of his sufferings that he forgets his defence and breaks out into a passionate cry for death, which he calls the thing that he longs for....
OH THAT I MIGHT HAVE MY REQUEST, &C.— These two verses, as well as the 11th, with many more that might be quoted to the same purpose, are, as Mr. Peters observes, utterly inconsistent with Job's belie...
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...
_EVEN THAT IT WOULD PLEASE GOD TO DESTROY ME; THAT HE WOULD LET LOOSE HIS HAND, AND CUT ME OFF!_ Destroy - literally, grind or crush (Isaiah 3:15). LET LOOSE HIS HAND. God had put forth His hand onl...
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...
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 was weak. Both his body and his spirit were weak (see verse 12). Job felt as if he could not even control his own words (verse 3, verse 5). So, Job prayed a sad prayer. He prayed that he would die...
EVEN THAT IT WOULD PLEASE GOD... — The sequence of thought in these verses is obscure and uncertain. The speaker may mean that, notwithstanding all that might befall him, his consolation would still b...
וְ יֹאֵ֣ל אֱ֭לֹוהַּ וִֽ ידַכְּאֵ֑נִי יַתֵּ֥ר...
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...
_Off, and release me from this state of misery and danger. (Haydock) --- He is ready to die cheerfully, if it be God's will. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "May the Lord, who has begun, wound me, but not ta...
(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...
EVEN THAT IT WOULD PLEASE GOD TO DESTROY ME,.... Not with an everlasting destruction of body and soul; for destruction from the Almighty was a terror to him, Job 31:23; but with the destruction of the...
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! Ver. 9. _That it would please God to destroy me_] That is, to despatch me out of this world, and send me...
_O that I might have my request!_ The thing which I so passionately desired, and which, notwithstanding all your vain words, and weak arguments, I still continue to desire, and beseech God to grant me...
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...
TO DESTROY ME; to end my days and calamities together. _That he would let loose his hand_; which is now as it were bound up or restrained from giving me that deadly blow which I desire. Oh that he wou...
Job 6:9 please H2974 (H8686) God H433 crush H1792 (H8762) loose H5425 (H8686) hand H3027 off H1
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...
_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—NOTE ON JOB 6:8 Job expresses a hope for death at God’s hand, to end his suffering. ⇐ ⇔...
_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 Kings 19:4; Isaiah 48:10; Job 14:13; Job 19:21; Job 3:20;...
Destroy — To end my days and calamities together....