Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Job 6:18
i.e. The course of those waters is changed, they are gone out of their channel, flowing hither and thither, till they be quite consumed; as it here follows.
i.e. The course of those waters is changed, they are gone out of their channel, flowing hither and thither, till they be quite consumed; as it here follows.
Verse Job 6:18. _THE PATHS OF THEIR WAY_] They sometimes forsake their _ancient channels_, which is a frequent case with the river _Ganges_; and growing smaller and smaller from being divided into num...
THE PATHS OF THEIR WAY ARE TURNED ASIDE - Noyes renders this, “The caravans turn aside to them on their way.” Good, “The outlets of their channel wind about.” Rosenmuller, “The bands of travelers dire...
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...
TO NOTHINGS INTO. WASTE. Hebrew. _tohu,_ as in Genesis 1:2....
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...
_they go to nothing_ Rather, THEY GO UP INTO THE WASTE. The expression _go up_in Heb. is used when no ascent in the strict sense is meant; it signifies to go inland, into the interior of a region. The...
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...
THE PATHS OF THEIR WAY ARE TURNED ASIDE— Here is a noble climax, a most poetical description of the torrents in hot climates. By extraordinary cold they are frozen over; but the sun no sooner exerts i...
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...
_THE PATHS OF THEIR WAY ARE TURNED ASIDE; THEY GO TO NOTHING, AND PERISH._ The paths of their way are turned aside. Caravans (Hebrew, travelers) turn aside from their way (Umbreit). But Maurer suppor...
RV 'The caravans _that travel_ by the way of them turn aside' (in search of water). They go up into the waste, and perish. 19, 20. TROOPS] RV 'caravans.' TEMA.. SHEBA] in Arabia. The vv. describe 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...
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...
THEY GO TO NOTHING. — It is doubtful whether this applies to the streams or to the caravans. Thus, “The paths of their way are turned aside and come to nought;” or, “The caravans that travel by the wa...
יִ֭לָּ֣פְתוּ אָרְחֹ֣ות דַּרְכָּ֑ם יַעֲל֖וּ בַ † תֹּ֣הוּ...
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...
_Entangled. Like meandering streams, my friends act crookedly. (Menochius)_...
(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...
THE PATHS OF THEIR WAY ARE TURNED ASIDE,.... That is, the waters, when melted by the heat of the sun, and the warmth of the weather, run, some one way, and some another in little streams and windings,...
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish. Ver. 18. _The paths of their way are turned aside_] _i.e._ They being (as it were) cut into divers small rivers running here a...
_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...
The paths of their way are turned aside, their course winds hither and thither, just like that of the arroyos in the wilderness; THEY GO TO NOTHING, AND PERISH, vanishing out in the desert wastes, sin...
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...
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 6:18 paths H734 way H1870 aside H3943 (H8735) go H5927 (H8799) nowhere H8414 perish H6 (H87
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...
Genesis 1:2; Isaiah 3:12; Isaiah 40:23; Job 12:24; Job 26:7;...
Perish — They are gone out of their channel, flowing hither and thither, 'till they are quite consumed....