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FOR NOW YE ARE AS NOTHING - Margin, “or, Ye are like to it, or
them.” In the margin also the word “nothing” is rendered
“not.” This variety arises from a difference of reading in the
Hebrew text, many...
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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...
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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...
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_ye are nothing_ Or, _are become nothing_. Job applies his comparison.
Another reading is: _ye are become it_, i. e. the deceitful,
disappointing brook. The general sense remains the same.
_my casting...
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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...
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3. Bitter disappointment from his friends, who are unreasonably hard
(Job 6:14-23)
TEXT 6:14-23
14 TO HIM THAT IS READY TO FAINT KINDNESS _should be showed_ FROM HIS
FRIEND;
Even to him that forsak...
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_THEY WERE CONFOUNDED BECAUSE THEY HAD HOPED; THEY CAME THITHER, AND
WERE ASHAMED._
They had hoped - literally, each had hoped-namely, that their
companions would find water. The greater had been the...
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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...
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YE ARE NOTHING] RM 'ye are like thereto,' i.e. to the deceptive
brooks. But it would be better to read 'so have ye been to me.' AND
ARE AFRAID] perhaps of showing sympathy, since they thought him guil...
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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...
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There are some streams that travellers can always trust. The water is
always plentiful, even in the driest weather. When the travellers
arrive at these streams, there is water for them. And there is w...
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FOR NOW YE ARE NOTHING. — “Surely now ye are become like _it”
i.e.,_ that wady; or, according to another reading followed in the
text of the Authorised Version, “Ye have become nothing: ye have
seen a...
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כִּֽי ־עַ֭תָּה הֱיִ֣יתֶם _לֹ֑ו_†
תִּֽרְא֥וּ חֲ֝תַ֗ת וַ
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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...
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“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,...
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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...
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For now ye are (m) nothing; ye see [my] casting down, and are afraid.
(m) That is, like this brook which deceives them who think to have
water there in their need, as I looked for consolation from yo...
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_Come. Hebrew, "are good for nothing." (Calmet) --- Protestant
marginal note, " like to them."_...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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FOR NOW YE ARE NOTHING,.... Once they seemed to be something to him;
he thought them men wise, good, and religious, kind, bountiful, and
tenderhearted; but now he found them otherwise, they were nothi...
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For now ye are nothing; ye see [my] casting down, and are afraid.
Ver. 21. _For now ye are nothing_] _i.e._ To me nothing worth; I have
no more joy of you than if you were not at all; ye are not unli...
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_For now ye are nothing_, &c. Just such are you, who, seeing my
calamity, afford me no comfort, and seem afraid lest I should want
something of you. Thus Job very properly applies the preceding most
b...
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For now ye are nothing, they had shown that they did not exist as real
friends; YE SEE MY CASTING DOWN, AND ARE AFRAID, full of terror and
dismay, fearing to identify themselves with one whom they bel...
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JOB CRITICIZES ELIPHAZ FOR HIS CONDUCT...
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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...
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FOR NOW YE ARE:
Or, for now ye are like to them
NOTHING:
_ Heb._ not...
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"YOU SEE. TERROR AND ARE AFRAID": "Job charges them with cowardice in
withholding their sympathy from him, afraid lest they should become
sharers of the calamity if they provoked God by showing sympat...
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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...
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He gives the reason why he charged them with deceitfulness, and
compared them to these deceitful brooks. _Nothing_, or, _as nothing_;
the note of similitude being oft understood. Heb. _as not_, i.e. y...
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Job 6:21 see H7200 (H8799) terror H2866 afraid H3372 (H8799)
ye are nothing - or, ye are like to them, Heb. to it, Job 6:15,...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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....
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 6:1 Job responds to Eliphaz’s words of
“comfort.”
⇐ ⇔...
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_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...
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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)
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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...
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2 Timothy 4:16; Isaiah 2:22; Jeremiah 17:5; Jeremiah 17:6; Jeremiah
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Nothing — You are to me as if you had never come to me; for I have
no comfort from you. Afraid — You are shy of me, and afraid for
yourselves, lest some further plagues should come upon me, wherein yo...