Return, I pray you. — “Do not regard the case as settled, but come again and examine it; try once more before you decide there is no unrighteousness in my case;” or, as some understand it, in my tongue, which is expressed immediately afterwards, and is here anticipated in the pronoun her. This rendering is certainly confirmed by Job 6:30.
Verse Job 6:29. _RETURN, I PRAY YOU_] _Reconsider the whole subject. Do_ _not be offended. Yea, reconsider the subject; my righteousness is_ _in it _- my argumentation is a sufficient proof of my inno...
RETURN, I PRAY YOU - That is, return to the argument. Give your attention to it again. Perhaps he may have discerned a disposition in them to turn away from what he was saying, and to withdraw and lea...
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...
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...
_Return, I pray you_ The verse means, Turn, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Turn again, I say; my cause is righteous. The word "turn" appears to mean not "begin anew," but "adopt another cou...
RETURN, I PRAY YOU; LET IT NOT BE INIQUITY— _Recollect yourselves, I beseech you; call it not wickedness: nay, consider it yet again; righteousness may be in me._ Chappelow....
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...
_RETURN, I PRAY YOU, LET IT NOT BE INIQUITY; YEA, RETURN AGAIN, MY RIGHTEOUSNESS IS IN IT._ Return - namely, from the wrong course which ye have entered on in your conference with me - i:e., retract...
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...
Render, 'Reconsider my case; do not do me such injustice.' Yes, reconsider it; my cause is a righteous one! INIQUITY] RV 'injustice.'...
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...
שֻֽׁבוּ ־נָ֭א אַל ־תְּהִ֣י עַוְלָ֑ה _וְ_†_שֻֽׁבוּ_†...
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...
(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...
RETURN, I PRAY YOU,.... From the ill opinion you have of me, and from your hard censures, and entertain other sentiments concerning me: or it may be, upon these words of Job his friends might be risin...
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness [is] in it. Ver. 29. _Return, I pray you_] Change your minds of me, and your language to me, _Bona verba quaeso; _ I se...
_Return, I pray, let it not be iniquity_ Or, _Recollect yourselves, I beseech you; call it not wickedness: yea, return again; my righteousness is in it_ Or, _Consider it yet again, righteousness may b...
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it. They should turn from their present position of unfriendly suspicion and make a careful examination of his cas...
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...
IS IN IT: that is, in this matter...
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...
Turn from your former course of perverse judgment; lay aside passion and prejudice against me; let me beg your second thoughts and a serious review of my case. LET IT NOT BE INIQUITY, to wit, in your...
Job 6:29 Yield H7725 (H8798) injustice H5766 concede H7725 (H8798) righteousness H6664 Return - Job 17:10
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...
Job 17:10; Job 27:4; Malachi 3:18...
Return — Turn from your former judgment. Iniquity — Or, there shall be no iniquity, in my words. Righteousness — In this cause or matter between you and me; and you will find the right to be on my sid...