Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 6:11
What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine (h) end, that I should prolong my life?
(h) He fears lest he should be brought to inconveniences, if his sorrows should continue.
What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine (h) end, that I should prolong my life?
(h) He fears lest he should be brought to inconveniences, if his sorrows should continue.
Verse Job 6:11. _WHAT_ IS _MY STRENGTH_] I can never suppose that my strength will be restored; and, were that possible, have I any comfortable prospect of a happy termination of my life? Had I any pr...
WHAT IS MY STRENGTH, THAT I SHOULD HOPE? - Job had hitherto borne his trials without apprehension that he would lose his constancy of hope, or his confidence in God. He here seems to apprehend that hi...
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 in his reply deals first of all with the charge of impatience. He catches up the word used by Eliphaz (Job 5:2), and declares that his impatience does but balance his calamity (Job 6:1 f.). The dr...
With more calmness Job proceeds to describe his hopeless condition, carrying out in this indirect way his defence of his despair....
Job 6:1-13. Job defends the violence of his complaints and his despair Eliphaz had made no reference directly to sin on Job's part; but he drew dark pictures of the evilness of human nature before th...
This verse should read, What is my strength that I should wait? And what is mine end that I should be patient? His impatient cry for death and his despair are justified by his condition. "Mine end...
AND WHAT IS MINE END, &C.?— Or, _what is mine end, that I should wish it to be deferred?_ Houbigant....
2. In his wasted condition, death is desirable. (Job 6:8-13) TEXT 6:8-13 8 OH THAT I MIGHT HAVE MY REQUEST; And that God would grant _me_ THE THING THAT I LONG FOR! 9 Even that it would please God...
_WHAT IS MY STRENGTH, THAT I SHOULD HOPE? AND WHAT IS MINE END, THAT I SHOULD PROLONG MY LIFE?_ What is my strength - so as to warrant the hope of restoration to health? a hope which Eliphaz had sugg...
6:11 patience? (h-18) Lit. 'lengthen out my soul' or 'life.'...
PROLONG MY LIFE] RV 'be patient.' Since there is nothing but death before him, how can he help being impatient for its arrival?...
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...
Job explained that his body and his spirit were weak. Job used to be a great man, whom everybody respected (Job 1:3; Job 29:1-10; Job 29:21-25). He was a leader of his people. But now, Job needed help...
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...
PROLONG MY LIFE. — This is the literal rendering; but some understand _be patient,_ as in our phrase, _long-_suffering....
מַה ־כֹּחִ֥י כִֽי ־אֲיַחֵ֑ל וּ מַה ־קִּ֝צִּ֗י
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...
_End. Septuagint, "time." I am too weak and short-lived to bear all this. (Haydock) --- I can perceive no end. (Menochius) --- Keep. Protestants, "prolong my life." (Haydock) --- "What is the extent o...
(11) What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? (12) Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass? (13) Is not my help in me? and i...
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...
WHAT [IS] MY STRENGTH, THAT I SHOULD HOPE?.... For a perfect restoration of health, suggested by Eliphaz; since it was so sadly weakened by the present affliction, which made death more desirable than...
What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine end, that I should prolong my life? Ver. 11. _What is my strength, that I should hope?_] _q.d._ Thou hast told me, O Eliphaz, that if I f...
_What is my strength that I should hope?_ My strength is so small and spent, that although I may linger a while in my torments, yet I cannot live long, and therefore it is vain for me to hope for such...
What is my strength that I should hope, continue to wait, persevere as heretofore? AND WHAT IS MINE END THAT I SHOULD PROLONG MY LIFE, literally, "lengthen my soul," be patient? His strength was compl...
JOB DEFENDS HIS DESIRE FOR DEATH...
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...
"WHAT IS MY STRENGTH, THAT. SHOULD WAIT?" Job can endure no more. This is. response to Eliphaz's exhortation to repent and receive blessings (Job 5:18ff). JOB 6:12 "IS MY STRENGTH THE STRENGTH OF STON...
8-13 Job had desired death as the happy end of his miseries. For this, Eliphaz had reproved him, but he asks for it again with more vehemence than before. It was very rash to speak thus of God destro...
My strength is so small and spent, that although I may linger a while in my torments, yet I cannot live long, and therefore it is vain and absurd for me to hope for such a restitution of my strength a...
Job 6:11 strength H3581 hope H3176 (H8762) end H7093 prolong H748 (H8686) life H5315 What -...
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...
_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 6:1 Job responds to Eliphaz’s words of “comfort.” ⇐ ⇔...
_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 10:20; Job 13:25; Job 13:28; Job 17:1; Job 17:14;...
Strength — My strength is so spent, that it is vain for me to hope for such restitution as thou hast promised me, Job 5:22. End — What is death to me? It is not terrible, but comfortable. That — Then...