Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 6:24
Teach — Convince me by solid arguments. I will — I will patiently hear and gladly receive your counsels.
Teach — Convince me by solid arguments. I will — I will patiently hear and gladly receive your counsels.
Verse Job 6:24. _TEACH ME_] Show me where I am mistaken. Bring proper arguments to convince me of my errors; and you will soon find that I shall gladly receive your counsels, and abandon the errors of...
TEACH ME, AND I WILL HOLD MY TONGUE - That is, give me any real instruction, or show me what is my duty, and I will be silent. By this he means that Eliphaz had really imparted no instruction, but had...
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...
In answer to their covert insinuations Job demands that they should bring home to him the sins of which they suspected him....
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...
4. Their words are academic. Where is his sin? (Job 6:24-30) TEXT 6:24-30 24 TEACH ME, AND I WILL HOLD MY PEACE; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred. 25 How forcible are words of uprig...
_TEACH ME, AND I WILL HOLD MY TONGUE: AND CAUSE ME TO UNDERSTAND WHEREIN I HAVE ERRED._ Irony. If you can teach me the right view, I am willing to be set right and hold my tongue, and to be made to se...
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 thought that his friends were not sincere. Perhaps they wanted to argue. Perhaps they enjoyed their conversation. Perhaps they were playing games with their words. But Job was not playing games....
הֹ֭ורוּנִי וַ אֲנִ֣י אַחֲרִ֑ישׁ וּ מַה ־שָּׁ֝
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...
Teach me, and I will (o) hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. (o) Show me where I have erred, and I will confess my sin....
(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...
TEACH ME, AND I WILL HOLD MY TONGUE,.... Job having made his defence, and which he thought a sufficient one to acquit him of the charge against him; yet to show that he was not stubborn and flexible,...
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. Ver. 24. _Teach me, and I will hold my tongue_] If I be in an error, I am willing to be rectified. Hitherto you h...
_Teach me_ Instead of censuring and reproaching, instruct and convince me by solid arguments; _and I will hold my tongue_ I will patiently hear and gladly receive your counsels; _and cause me to under...
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; he was willing to be set right and to cease his complaint; AND CAUSE ME TO UNDERSTAND WHEREIN I HAVE ERRED, this being preferable to any silent or open accusation...
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...
"TEACH ME, AND. WILL BE SILENT; AND SHOW ME HOW. HAVE ERRED": Yet Job is still willing to learn, to be proven wrong. "Where is the evidence. have sinned?...
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...
TEACH ME; instead of censuring and reproaching, instruct and convince me by solid arguments. I WILL HOLD MY TONGUE; I will patiently hear and gladly receive your counsels; or, I will be silent; I will...
Job 6:24 Teach H3384 (H8685) tongue H2790 (H8686) understand H995 (H8685) erred H7686 (H8804) Teach me -...
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...
_Teach me, and I will hold my tongue._ THE VIRTUE OF SILENCE This is the passionate outcry of a soul in trouble. Misfortune and loss have fallen heavily upon Job. His spirit is sorely stricken. The p...
_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’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...
James 1:19; James 3:2; Job 10:2; Job 32:11; Job 32:15;...