Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Job 6:25
How forcible are right words!— How persuasive are the words of an impartial man! But how shall a man defend himself, whom you have already condemned? The reason is, they had condemned him unheard. Heath.
How forcible are right words!— How persuasive are the words of an impartial man! But how shall a man defend himself, whom you have already condemned? The reason is, they had condemned him unheard. Heath.
Verse Job 6:25. _HOW FORCIBLE ARE RIGHT WORDS_] A well-constructed argument, that has truth for its basis, is _irresistible_. _BUT WHAT DOTH YOUR ARGUING REPROVE?_] Your _reasoning_ is defective, be...
HOW FORCIBLE ARE RIGHT WORDS! - How weighty and impressive are words of truth! Job means that he was accustomed to feel their power, and to admit it on his soul. If their words were such, he would lis...
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...
WORDS. sayings. REPROVE. convince, or confute: i.e. what can. reproof from you reprove? See translation, below....
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...
_how forcible are right words_ Or, _words of uprightness_, that is honest, straightforward, close dealing with a man about himself, or his offences, sign of true friendship, Psalms 141:5; cf. ch. Job...
In answer to their covert insinuations Job demands that they should bring home to him the sins of which they suspected him....
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...
FORCIBLE] perhaps 'irritating' would be better, a bitter sarcasm. WHAT DOTH YOUR ARGUING REPROVE?] At what sin are they aiming?...
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....
HOW FORCIBLE ARE RIGHT WORDS! — “How forcible are words of uprightness! But what doth your reproof reprove? Open rebuke is better than secret love; better to be honestly and openly rebuked by you than...
מַה ־נִּמְרְצ֥וּ אִמְרֵי ־יֹ֑שֶׁר וּ מַה ־יֹּ
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...
How (p) forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? (p) He who has a good conscience does not shrink at the sharp words or reasonings of others, unless they are able to persuade him...
_Why. Hebrew, "How strong are the words of truth!" (Calmet) --- Whereas. Protestants, "But what doth your arguing reprove?" What part of my discourse do you find erroneous? Septuagint, "But it seems t...
(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...
HOW FORCIBLE ARE RIGHT WORDS!.... That are according to right reason; such as may be called strong reasons, or bony arguments, as in Isaiah 41:21; there are strength and weight in such words, reasoni...
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? Ver. 25. _How forcible are right words_] How sweet, saith the Chaldee, interpreting it by Psalms 119:103. It may be read _Nimletsu_ f...
_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...
JOB CRITICIZES ELIPHAZ FOR HIS CONDUCT...
How forcible are right words, such as are based upon sound knowledge! BUT WHAT DOTH YOUR ARGUING REPROVE? What Job missed so sorely in the case of his friends was this, that they did not substantiate...
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...
"HOW PAINFUL ARE HONEST WORDS! BUT WHAT DOES YOUR ARGUMENT PROVE?" Job is willing to accept honest words, even if they are painful to accept, yet he is unconvinced that his friends have proven their p...
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...
RIGHT WORDS, i.e. the words of truth or solid arguments, have a marvellous power to convince and persuade a man; and if yours were such, I should readily yield to them. YOUR ARGUING REPROVE; or, _your...
Job 6:25 forceful H4834 (H8738) right H3476 words H561 arguing H3198 (H8687) prove H3198 (H8686) forcible -
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...
_How forcible are right words! _ THE FORCE OF RIGHT WORDS Who has not felt the superiority of the power of Job’s words compared with those of the words of his friends? How is this? Job suffered, str...
_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 6:25 If UPRIGHT WORDS are used properly, they can REPROVE a person and save him from foolishness. However, Job is a DESPAIRING MAN, pouring out his complaint before God. Hi
_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...
Ecclesiastes 12:10; Ecclesiastes 12:11; Job 13:5; Job 16:3; Job 16:4;
Forcible — The words of truth have a marvellous power. Reprove — But there is no truth in your assertions or weight in your arguments....