Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 6:27
Render, 'Would you sadden the bereaved and wound your friend?'
Render, 'Would you sadden the bereaved and wound your friend?'
Verse Job 6:27. _YE OVERWHELM THE FATHERLESS_] Ye see that I am as destitute as the most _miserable orphan_; would ye overwhelm such a one? and would you _dig a pit for your friend _- do ye lay wait f...
YEA, YE OVERWHELM THE FATHERLESS - Job undoubtedly means that this should be applied to himself. He complains that they took advantage of his words, that they were disposed to pervert his meaning, and...
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...
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...
This verse probably reads, Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, And bargain over your friend. A strong invective against their unfeeling behaviour. The words are severe; the preceding passa...
In answer to their covert insinuations Job demands that they should bring home to him the sins of which they suspected him....
YEA, YE OVERWHELM, &C.— _Yes, ye overwhelm the destitute, and make a mock at your friend._ Heath and Houbigant....
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...
_YEA, YE OVERWHELM THE FATHERLESS, AND YE DIG A PIT FOR YOUR FRIEND._ Ye overwhelm: - literally, 'ye cause (supply, your anger, Umbreit) a net'-namely, of sophistry (Noyes and Schuttens) - 'to fall u...
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....
YEA, YE OVERWHELM THE FATHERLESS. — Rather, probably, _Ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend._ This is more in accordance with the language, and preserves the pa...
אַף ־עַל ־יָתֹ֥ום תַּפִּ֑ילוּ וְ֝ תִכְר֗וּ עַ
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...
CHAPTER VI....
(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...
YEA, YE OVERWHELM THE FATHERLESS,.... Meaning himself; who was like a fatherless child, stripped of all his mercies, of his children, his substance, and his health; and was in a most miserable, helple...
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend. Ver. 27. _Yea, you overwhelm the fatherless_] Heb. Ye throw yourselves upon the fatherless, that is, upon miserable me, who am he...
_Ye overwhelm the fatherless_ Your words are not only vain, useless, and uncomfortable to me, but also grievous and pernicious. Hebrew, תפילו, _tappilu, you rush_, or _throw yourselves_ upon him. You...
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, like unrelenting creditors they would cast lots for the orphans left by a debtor to make them bondservants, AND YE DIG A PIT FOR YOUR FRIEND, trafficking or bargainin...
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...
YE OVERWHELM: _ Heb._ ye cause to fall upon...
"The three friends seemed as opposed to him as if they were taking undue advantage of an orphan or even selling. friend" _(Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 728)._...
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...
YEA; your words are not only vain, and useless, and uncomfortable to me, but also grievous and pernicious. YE OVERWHELM, Heb. _you rush or throw yourselves_ upon him. For words in _hiphil_ are oft put...
Job 6:27 overwhelm H5307 (H8686) fatherless H3490 undermine H3738 (H8799) friend H7453 the fatherless - Job 22
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’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...
Exodus 22:22; Ezekiel 22:7; James 1:27; Jeremiah 18:20; Jeremiah 18
Overwhelm — You load with censures and calumnies. Desolate — Me who am deprived of all my children, my estate, and my friends. I spoke all I thought, as to my friends, and you thence occasion to cast...