Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 6:30
Is there iniquity, etc.] rather, 'Is my tongue perverted?'Cannot my taste, etc.] 'Cannot I distinguish between right and wrong as well as you can?'
Is there iniquity, etc.] rather, 'Is my tongue perverted?'Cannot my taste, etc.] 'Cannot I distinguish between right and wrong as well as you can?'
Verse Job 6:30. _IS THERE INIQUITY IN MY TONGUE?_] Am I not an _honest_ man? and if in my haste my tongue had uttered _falsity_, would not my conscience discern it? and do you think that such a man as...
IS THERE INIQUITY IN MY TONGUE? - This is a solemn appeal to their consciences, and their own deep conviction that he was sincere. Iniquity in the tongue means falsehood, deceit, hypocrisy - that whic...
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 appeals to his friends to give him a fair hearing. Let them look him in the face (Job 6:28). We must imagine, says Duhm, that during Job's speech, and especially during the last sharp sayings, the...
IS THERE... ? CANNOT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
In Job 6:28 Job asseverated that he spoke truth in affirming his innocence. In Job 6:29 he affirmed that he had right on his side in his plea against God, in other words that he was wrongly afflicted....
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...
IS THERE INIQUITY IN MY TONGUE, &C.— _Must there needs be perversity in my tongue, because my palate cannot relish misery?_ Heath. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Having heard with patient attention the discourse...
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...
_IS THERE INIQUITY IN MY TONGUE? CANNOT MY TASTE DISCERN PERVERSE THINGS?_ INIQUITY IN MY TONGUE. Will you say that my guilt lies in the organ of speech, and will you call it to account? or is it that...
6:30 taste (c-9) Lit. 'palate.' see ch. 12.11....
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 said that he was innocent. He did not pretend that he was perfect (Job 31:33). But Job was a genuine servant of God (Job 1:8). Job respected God. And he refused to do evil deeds. But Job’s friends...
IS THERE INIQUITY? — Or, _injustice in my tongue? Is my taste so perverted that it cannot perceive what is perverse?_ “Ye appear to think that I am wholly incapable of judging my own cause because it...
הֲ יֵשׁ ־בִּ לְשֹׁונִ֥י עַוְלָ֑ה אִם ־חִ֝כִּ֗
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...
_Mouth. He engages their attention. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "Cannot my taste discern perverse things," (Protestants; Haydock) or "the evil" which I endure? My complaints are not surely unfounded. (Calmet...
(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...
REFLECTIONS READER! let us ponder over the situation, in which the HOLY GHOST hath represented Job in this chapter, and gather from it those precious instructions, which we may humbly suppose, the LO...
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...
IS THERE INIQUITY IN MY TONGUE?.... Meaning in his words; either those which he uttered when he cursed the day on which he was born, or in charging his friends with unkindness and falsehood; otherwise...
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? Ver. 30. _Is there iniquity in my tongue?_] Yea, or else you shall pass for a perfect man, and well able to bridle the whole b...
_Is there iniquity in my tongue?_ Consider, if there be any iniquity, or untruth, in what I have already said, or shall further speak? Have I hitherto uttered any thing that is faulty? _Cannot my tast...
Is there iniquity in my tongue? Had he actually, thus far in his complaint, spoken wrong? CANNOT MY TASTE DISCERN PERVERSE THINGS? Was his palate, figuratively speaking, in such a poor condition that...
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...
MY TASTE: _ Heb._ my palate...
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...
Consider again, and more thoroughly examine, if there be any untruth or iniquity in what I have already said, or shall further speak to you. MY TASTE. i.e. my judgment, which discerns and judgeth of w...
Job 6:30 there H3426 injustice H5766 tongue H3956 taste H2441 discern H995 (H8799) unsavory H1942 iniquity -...
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 6:28 For the first time, Job declares that he is innocent and deserving of VINDICATION. ⇐...
_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...
Hebrews 5:14; Job 12:11; Job 33:8; Job 34:3; Job 42:3;...
Is there — Consider if there be any untruth or iniquity in what I have already said, or shall farther speak. Taste — My judgment, which judgeth of words and actions, as the palate doth of meats....