Brethren — Friends; for though Eliphaz only had spoken, the other two shewed their approbation of his discourse. Deceitfully — Adding to the afflictions which they said they came to remove. And it is no new thing, for even brethren to deal deceitfully. It is therefore our wisdom to cease from man. We cannot expect too little from the creature, or too much from the creator.
Verse Job 6:15. _HAVE DEALT DECEITFULLY AS A BROOK_] There is probably an allusion here to those _land torrents_ which make a sudden appearance, and as suddenly vanish; being produced by the rains th...
MY BRETHREN - To wit, the three friends who had come to condole with him. He uses the language of brethren, to intimate what he had a right to expect from them. It is common in all languages to give t...
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...
THE STREAM OF BROOKS. Hebrew. _, aphik. a,_ torrent restrained in. narrow channel, natural or artificial, open as in. gorge, or covered as in an aqueduct, passing away, inaccessible, and out of sight....
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 pass away_ Better, THAT PASS AWAY, cf. ch. Job 11:16. The other sense, _that overflow_(their banks), is improbable....
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...
_MY BRETHREN HAVE DEALT DECEITFULLY AS A BROOK, AND AS THE STREAM OF BROOKS THEY PASS AWAY;_ My brethren, Those whom I regarded as my brethren, from whom I looked for faithfulness in my adversity, ha...
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...
HAVE DEALT DECEITFULLY AS A BROOK. — This is one of the most celebrated poetical similes in the book, and carries us to life in the desert, where the wadys, so mighty and torrent-like in the winter, a...
אַ֭חַי בָּגְד֣וּ כְמֹו ־נָ֑חַל כַּ אֲפִ֖יק נְ
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...
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a (k) brook, [and] as the stream of brooks they pass away; (k) He compares friends who do not comfort us in our misery to a brook which in summer when we need wa...
(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...
MY BRETHREN HAVE DEALT DECEITFULLY AS A BROOK,.... Meaning his three friends, represented by Eliphaz, who were of the same sentiments with him, and behaved towards Job as he did: these were his brethr...
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, [and] as the stream of brooks they pass away; Ver. 15. _My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook_] Even you, whom I esteemed as my brethren (for to...
_My brethren_ That is, my kinsmen, or three friends; for though Eliphaz only had spoken, the other two had shown their approbation of his discourse; _have dealt deceitfully_ Under a pretence of friend...
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, false and treacherous as a torrent, as an arroyo in the wilderness, which presents a dry bed at just the time when water is most needed, AND AS THE STREA...
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...
"MY BROTHERS HAVE ACTED DECEITFULLY LIKE. WADI": "His friends had been like. riverbed. In the rainy season,. wadi is filled with rushing, raging water, but in the summer it vanishes or dries up just...
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...
MY BRETHREN, i.e. my kinsmen or three friends; for though Eliphaz only had spoken, the other two showed their approbation of his discourse, or, at least, of that part of it which contained his censure...
Job 6:15 brothers H251 deceitfully H898 (H8804) brook H5158 streams H650 brooks H5158 away H5674 (H8799) My bre
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—NOTE ON JOB 6:15 Job’s friends are TREACHEROUS AS A TORRENT-BED, which can suddenly appear, providing water to a thirsty traveler, but may then just as quickly dry up....
_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...
Jeremiah 15:18; Jeremiah 30:14; Jeremiah 9:4; Jeremiah 9:5; Job 19:19