Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 6:26
'Are you finding fault with desperate words uttered in distress?'
'Are you finding fault with desperate words uttered in distress?'
Verse Job 6:26. _DO YE IMAGINE TO REPROVE WORDS_] Is it some expressions which in my hurry, and under the pressure of unprecedented affliction, I have uttered, that ye catch at? You can find no flaw i...
DO YE IMAGINE TO REPROVE WORDS? - A considerable variety of interpretation has occurred in regard to this verse. Dr. Good, following Schultens, supposes that the word translated wind here רוּח _rûach...
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...
WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9....
In answer to their covert insinuations Job demands that they should bring home to him the sins of which they suspected him....
_do ye imagine_ that is, is it your purpose? think ye? _and the speeches_… which are _as wind_ Rather, THOUGH THE SPEECHES OF ONE THAT IS DESPERATE GO INTO THE WIND....
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...
DO YE IMAGINE TO REPROVE WORDS— _Do you devise speeches to insult me; and the words of him who is desperate, are they as the wind?_ Heath....
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...
_DO YE IMAGINE TO REPROVE WORDS, AND THE SPEECHES OF ONE THAT IS DESPERATE, WHICH ARE AS WIND?_ Do ye imagine, or mean, to reprove words, and (to reprove) the speeches of one desperate, (which are) a...
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....
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...
DO YE IMAGINE TO REPROVE WORDS...? — “It cannot be your intent to reprove mere words, as mine confessedly are (Job 6:3), and as you seem to count them (Job 6:13). If so, they are hardly worthy the tro...
הַ לְ הֹוכַ֣ח מִלִּ֣ים תַּחְשֹׁ֑בוּ וּ֝ לְ
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...
Do ye imagine to reprove (q) words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind? (q) Do you object to my words because I would be thought to speak foolishly, and am now in misery?...
_Wind. Job humbles the vanity of Eliphaz. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "nor shall your rebuke silence my words: for I will not admit the sound of your discourse. Nay, you rush," &c._...
(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...
DO YE IMAGINE TO REPROVE WORDS,.... Or with words; with bare words, without any force of reasoning and argument in them? put a parcel of words together without any sense or meaning, or however without...
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind? Ver. 26. _Do ye imagine to reprove words?_] Idle and hasty words, which have more sound than sense? Thi...
_Do you imagine to reprove words?_ What! is all your wisdom employed for this, to catch hold of and reprove some of my words, without making allowance for human infirmity or extreme misery? _and the s...
Do ye imagine to reprove words, were they trying to fasten only upon the words which his misery pressed out of his mouth, AND THE SPEECHES OF ONE THAT IS DESPERATE, WHICH ARE AS WIND? They had his bla...
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...
"Not only were their words of no help; they even treated his words like wind" _(Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 728)._ Job feels that his friends are simply treating his words like wind, meaning that they wo...
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...
DO YE IMAGINE TO REPROVE WORDS? i.e. do you think that all your arguments are solid and unanswerable, and all my answers are but idle and empty words? Or do you think it is sufficient to cavil and qua...
Job 6:26 intend H2803 (H8799) rebuke H3198 (H8687) words H4405 speeches H561 desperate H2976 (H8737) wind...
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...
_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...
Ephesians 4:14; Hosea 12:1; Job 10:1; Job 2:10; Job 3:3;...
Words — Do you think it is sufficient to quarrel with some of my words, without giving allowance for human infirmity, or extreme misery. Desperate — Of a poor miserable, hopeless and helpless man. As...