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 necessarily prove one to be a hypocrite or a wicked man.
Key Word: Pity, Job 6:14; Job 6:28.
Strong Verses: Job 6:14; Job 6:24.
Striking Facts: See 1 Peter 2:20-23.
CHAPTER VI _Job answers, and vindicates himself; and shows that the great_ _affliction which he suffered was the cause of his complaining,_ _by which life was rendered burdensome to him_, 1-13. _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...
ANSWERED. spake, but Hebrew Idiom. replied. See note on Job 4:1 and Deuteronomy 1:41....
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...
_JOB SHEWETH THAT HIS COMPLAINTS ARE NOT CAUSELESS: HE WISHETH FOR DEATH, WHEREIN HE IS ASSURED OF COMFORT: HE REPROVES HIS FRIENDS FOR THEIR UNKINDNESS._ _Before Christ 1645._ _JOB 6:1. BUT JOB ANS...
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...
_BUT JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
In chapter 3, Job described his feelings. His friends listened. But Eliphaz did not answer wisely. Eliphaz’s explanation in Chapter s 4-5 was too simple. So, Job spoke again....
VI. (1) BUT JOB ANSWERED AND SAID. — Job replies to Eliphaz with the despair of a man who has been baulked of sympathy when he hoped to find it. We cannot trace, nor must we expect to find, the forma...
וַ יַּ֥עַן אִיֹּ֗וב וַ יֹּאמַֽר׃...
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...
CONTENTS We have in this chapter Job's answer to Eliphaz. He entereth upon his defense, in which we see the workings of the afflicted mind; and the mingled state of grace, with human infirmity, vario...
(1) В¶ But Job answered and said, (2) Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! (3) For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my wor...
_A TORTURED HEART_ ‘But Job answered and said,’ etc. Job 6:1 I. JOB TRIES TO JUSTIFY THE STRONG EXPRESSIONS HE HAD MADE USE OF BY DESCRIBING THE SHARPNESS AND BITTERNESS OF HIS PAIN.—As the animals...
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...
BUT JOB ANSWERED AND SAID. Though Eliphaz thought his speech was unanswerable, being, as he and his friends judged, unquestionably true, and the fruit of strict, laborious, and diligent search and inq...
But Job answered and said, Ver. 1. _But Job answered and said_] Eliphaz thought he had silenced him, and set him down with so much reason, that he should have had nothing to reply; yet Job, desirous...
_Job answered and said_ Eliphaz concluded his discourse with an air of assurance, being very confident that what he had advanced was so plain and so pertinent that nothing could be objected to it. Job...
JOB DEFENDS HIS DESIRE FOR DEATH...
But Job answered and said,...
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...
"OH THAT MY GRIEF WERE ACTUALLY WEIGHED AND LAID IN THE BALANCES TOGETHER WITH MY CALAMITY! FOR THEN IT WOULD BE HEAVIER THAN THE SAND OF THE SEAS": If his misery and suffering could be measured it w...
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...
JOB CHAPTER 6 Job's answer: he wisheth his troubles were duly weighed, for then would his complaints appear just, JOB 6:1: prayeth for death; his hope in it, JOB 6:8. He is unable to bear up under his...
Job 6:1 Job H347 answered H6030 (H8799) said H559 (H8799) answered - Job 4:1...
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...
Job 4:1...