When the weather grows milder, and the frost and snow is dissolved. When it is hot; in the hot season of the year, when waters are most refreshing and necessary. Out of their place; in which the traveller expected to find them to his comfort, but they are gone he knows not whither.
WHAT TIME - In the time; or after a time. THEY WAX WARM - Gesenius renders this word (יזרבו _y__e__zor__e__bû_) when they became narrow, and this version has been adopted by Noyes. The word occurs no...
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...
MY BRETHREN HAVE DEALT DECEITFULLY— Bishop Lowth observes, that though the metaphor from overflowing waters is very frequent in other sacred writers, yet the author of the book of Job never touches up...
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...
_WHAT TIME THEY WAX WARM, THEY VANISH: WHEN IT IS HOT, THEY ARE CONSUMED OUT OF THEIR PLACE._ Wax warm - rather, 'At the time when (But they soon, Umbreit) they become narrower (flow in a narrower be...
6:17 diminish, (b-5) Or 'flow.'...
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...
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...
בְּ֭ עֵת יְזֹרְב֣וּ נִצְמָ֑תוּ בְּ֝ חֻמֹּ֗ו נ
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...
(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...
WHAT TIME THEY WAX WARM THEY VANISH,.... The ice and the snow, which, when the weather becomes warm, they melt away and disappear; and in like manner, he suggests his friends ceased to be friends to h...
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. Ver. 17. What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, &c.] Lo, such is the fruit of creature confi...
_What time they wax warm_ When the weather grows milder, and the frost and snow are dissolved; _they vanish_ נצמתו, _nitsmathu, ex cisi sunt, they are cut off_, having no fountain from whence to draw...
what time they wax warm, they vanish, after the short spring flow, which seemed to carry so much promise, their bed is soon parched; WHEN IT IS HOT, THEY ARE CONSUMED OUT OF THEIR PLACE, altogether ex...
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...
THEY VANISH: _ Heb._ they are cut off WHEN IT IS HOT: _ Heb._ in the heat thereof CONSUMED: _ Heb._ extinguished...
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...
Job 6:17 When H6256 warm H2215 (H8792) flow H6789 (H8738) hot H2527 vanish H1846 (H8738) place...
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...
_My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook._ THE USES AND LESSONS OF DISAPPOINTMENT The meaning of this passage is, that Job had been disappointed. He hoped his friends would have comforted him i...
_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...
1 Kings 17:1...
Warm — When the weather grows milder. Hot — In the hot season, when waters are most refreshing and necessary....