Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 6:6
Can, &c. — Do men use to eat unsavoury meats with delight, or without complaint? Men commonly complain of their meat when it is but unsavoury, how much more when it is so bitter as mine is?
Can, &c. — Do men use to eat unsavoury meats with delight, or without complaint? Men commonly complain of their meat when it is but unsavoury, how much more when it is so bitter as mine is?
Verse Job 6:6. _CAN THAT WHICH IS UNSAVOURY_] Mr. _Good_ renders this verse as follows: _Doth insipid food without a mixture of salt,_ _yea, doth the white of the egg give forth pungency_? Which he t...
CAN THAT WHICH IS UNSAVOURY - Which is insipid, or without taste. BE EATEN WITHOUT SALT - It is necessary to add salt in order to make it either palatable or wholesome. The literal truth of this no on...
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...
CAN... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. WHITE OF AN EGG. "Egg" occurs only here. "White" (Hebrew. _rir)_ is found elsewhere only in 1 Samuel 21:13, where it is rendered "spittle"....
Job's complaints are proof of his pain, for does any creature complain when it has what its nature desires? The "braying" and "lowing" here are those expressing discontent or want. _be eaten without...
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...
OR IS THERE ANY TASTE IN THE WHITE OF AN EGG— Job's indignation being raised, he expresses in metaphor how absurd and how nauseous to him the discourse of Eliphaz had been. Our version of the latter c...
C. SEARCH FOR COMFORT AND JOB'S CONFRONTATION WITH GOD (Job 6:1, Job 7:21) 1. There is adequate reason for his complaint. (Job 6:1-7) TEXT 6:1-7 6 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, 2 Oh that my vexation...
_CAN THAT WHICH IS UNSAVOURY BE EATEN WITHOUT SALT? OR IS THERE ANY TASTE IN THE WHITE OF AN EGG?_ Unsavoury - tasteless; insipid. Salt is a chief necessary of life to an Eastern, whose food is mostl...
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...
UNSAVOURY] without flavour. THE WHITE OF AN EGG] Some prefer RM 'the juice of purslain.'...
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...
A farm animal might be noisy when it needs food. Such an animal is complaining because it is hungry. When Job spoke, he too made a noise. When he spoke, Job was complaining like the hungry animal. But...
הֲ יֵאָכֵ֣ל תָּ֭פֵל מִ בְּלִי ־מֶ֑לַח אִם
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...
Can that which is (e) unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg? (e) Can a man's taste delight in that, which has no savour? meaning that no one takes pleasure i...
Salt. I wonder not that you should consider my lamentations as insipid; I now find some consolation in them, ver. 7. (Calmet) --- Or can. Hebrew, "or is there any taste in the white of an egg?" (Prote...
(5) Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? (6) Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg? (7) The things tha...
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...
CAN THAT WHICH IS UNSAVOURY BE EATEN WITHOUT SALT?.... As any sort of pulse, peas, beans, lentiles, c. which have no savoury and agreeable taste unless salted, and so many other things and are disagre...
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg? Ver. 6. _Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt?_] Or, Can that which is unsavoury for wa...
Job 6:6. Job was reduced to such necessity that he was forced to content himself with such insipid unsavory morsels. This is the meaning, as appears by the next verse. Job 8:8...
_Can that which is unsavoury_ Or rather, _that which is insipid, be eaten without salt?_ Is it not requisite that every thing insipid should be seasoned, to give it a relish, and make it agreeable? Th...
Can that which is unsavory, tasteless, BE EATEN WITHOUT SALT? OR IS THERE ANY TASTE IN THE WHITE OF AN EGG? In either case the lack of flavor, the insipid taste, tends to make the food nauseating; eve...
JOB DEFENDS HIS DESIRE FOR DEATH...
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...
The idea seems to be that as tasteless food requires salt, Job's trouble and his complaining go together as well. Therefore, his complaining should be excused and viewed as normal....
1-7 Job still justifies himself in his complaints. In addition to outward troubles, the inward sense of God's wrath took away all his courage and resolution. The feeling sense of the wrath of God is...
Can or do men use to eat unsavoury meats with delight, or without complaint? This is either, 1. A reflection upon Eliphaz's discourse, as unsavoury, which could not give him any conviction or satisfa...
Job 6:6 food H8602 eaten H398 (H8735) salt H4417 there H3426 taste H2940 white H7388 egg H2495 that which -...
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...
_Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt?_ SEASONING FOR CHRISTIANITY Salt gives a zest to many unpalatable things, and is an invaluable condiment. The health, the digestion, the entire wel...
_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...
Colossians 4:6; Hebrews 6:4; Hebrews 6:5; Job 12:11; Job 16:2;...