This verse may be rendered not quite literally,
My soul refuseth to touch them!
Such things are like loathsome food to me.
Literally, like my corrupted, or, diseased food. Job does not name his afflictions but refers to them indirectly as "they" and "such things." He compared his sufferings to food in ch. Job 3:24.
THE THINGS THAT MY SOUL REFUSED TO TOUCH - That I refused to touch - the word “soul” here being used to denote himself. The idea here is, that those things which formerly were objects of loathing to h...
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...
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. MEAT. bread. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species), App-6, put for all kinds of food....
THE THINGS THAT MY SOUL REFUSETH, &C.— Job, persisting in his allegory, goes on to shew how disagreeable to his stomach the speech of Eliphaz had been, says Schultens, who translates the verse thus: _...
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...
_THE THINGS THAT MY SOUL REFUSED TO TOUCH ARE AS MY SORROWFUL MEAT._ To touch is contrasted with meat. 'My taste refused even to touch it, and yet am I fed with such meat of sickness.' The second cla...
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...
RV 'My soul refuseth to touch _them_ They are as loathsome meat to me.' Job 6:6 may mean that Job's afllictions are as intolerable to him as loathsome food. 8-10. Job longs for the stroke of death to...
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...
מֵאֲנָ֣ה לִ נְגֹּ֣ועַ נַפְשִׁ֑י הֵ֝֗מָּה כִּ...
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...
(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...
THE THINGS [THAT] MY SOUL REFUSED TO TOUCH [ARE] AS MY SORROWFUL MEAT. Meaning either the above things, that which is unsavoury, and the white of an egg, of any other food, which in the time of his pr...
The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat. Ver. 7. _The things that my soul refused to touch, &c._] I suffer such torments even in my very soul, as the very thought of the...
_The things that my soul refused_, &c. “Job, persisting in his allegory,” says Schultens, “goes on to show how disagreeable to his stomach the speech of Eliphaz had been.” This learned critic accordin...
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat, or, What my soul abhorred to touch, that is to me as my loathsome food; he had to smell and touch the putrid matter of leprosy day af...
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...
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...
Heb. _As the sicknesses or sorrows of my meat_, i.e. as my sorrowful meat, which I am constrained to eat with grief of heart. The particle _as_, either, 1. Notes not the similitude, but the truth of t...
Job 6:7 soul H5315 refuses H3985 (H8765) touch H5060 (H8800) loathsome H1741 food H3899 as my sorrowful meat -...
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...
_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 17:12; 1 Kings 22:27; Daniel 10:3; Ezekiel 12:18; Ezekiel
The things, &c. — The sense may be, those grievous afflictions, which I dreaded the very thought of, are now my daily, though sorrowful bread....