Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 6:2
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the (a) balances together!
(a To know whether I complain without just cause.
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the (a) balances together!
(a To know whether I complain without just cause.
Verse Job 6:2. _O THAT MY GRIEF WERE THOROUGHLY WEIGHED_] Job wished to be dealt with according to justice; as he was willing that his sins, if they could be proved, should be weighed against his suf...
O THAT MY GRIEF WERE THOROUGHLY WEIGHED - The word rendered “grief” here (כעשׂ _ka‛aś_) may mean either vexation, trouble, grief; Ecclesiastes 1:18; Ecclesiastes 2:23; or it may mean anger;...
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...
OH. Figure of speech _Ecphonesis._ App-6. MY GRIEF: i.e. the cause of my grief....
_my grief_ Rather, MY IMPATIENCE (ch. Job 4:2). The word expresses the whole demeanour which in ch. 3, and to the eyes of his friends, he shews under his trouble. He desires that it were weighed and a...
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...
OH THAT MY GRIEF WERE THROUGHLY WEIGHED— Heath, after Schultens, renders this verse, _Would to God my impatience were thoroughly weighed, and that they would in like manner poise my calamities in the...
C. SEARCH FOR COMFORT AND JOB'S CONFRONTATION WITH GOD (Job 6:1, Job 7:21) 1. There is adequate reason for his complaint. (Job 6:1-7) TEXT 6:1-7 6 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, 2 Oh that my vexation...
_OH THAT MY GRIEF WERE THROUGHLY WEIGHED, AND MY CALAMITY LAID IN THE BALANCES TOGETHER!_ Throughly weighed. Oh that, instead of censuring my complaints, when thou oughtest rather to have sympathized...
6:2 all (e-9) Lit. 'together.'...
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, 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...
A heavy weight is a great strain for the person who must carry it. And Job’s troubles were a terrible strain for Job. Job spoke because of this strain. And Job was not sure that his words were correct...
ל֗וּ שָׁקֹ֣ול יִשָּׁקֵ֣ל כַּעְשִׂ֑י _וְ֝_†_הַוָּתִ֗י_† בְּֽ...
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...
My sins, &c. In the Hebrew my wrath. He does not mean to compare his sufferings with his real sins; but with the imaginary crimes which his friends falsely imputed to him: and especially with his wrat...
(1) В¶ But Job answered and said, (2) Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! (3) For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my wor...
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...
OH THAT MY GRIEF WERE THOROUGHLY WEIGHED,.... Or, "in weighing weighed" u, most nicely and exactly weighed; that is, his grievous affliction, which caused so much grief of heart, and which had been sh...
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! Ver. 2. _Oh that my grief were throughly weighed_] Heb. Were weighed by weighing. The word rendered grief signi...
_O that my grief_ The cause of my grief; _were thoroughly weighed_ Were fully understood and duly considered! O that I had an impartial judge! that would understand my case, and see whether I have not...
Oh, that my grief were throughly weighed, namely, the suffering which he was enduring, AND MY CALAMITY, the bitter and unexplainable affliction, LAID IN THE BALANCES TOGETHER! Both pans being thus adj...
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...
LAID: _ Heb._ lifted up...
1-7 Job still justifies himself in his complaints. In addition to outward troubles, the inward sense of God's wrath took away all his courage and resolution. The feeling sense of the wrath of God is...
MY GRIEF; either, 1. My calamity, as it follows, or the cause or matter of my grief; the act being put for the object, as is usual, _fear for the thing feared_, &c., and the same thing being here rep...
Job 6:2 Oh H3863 grief H3708 fully H8254 (H8800) weighed H8254 (H8735) calamity H1942 (H8675)...
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...
_Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed._ HEAPING UP ONE SCALE We have no objection to weigh all Job’s griefs. But what shall we put in the other scale? He who counts the hairs of our head, and pu...
_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 23:2; Job 4:5...
My grief — The cause of my grief. Weighed — Were fully understood, and duly considered. O that I had an equal judge! that would understand my case, and consider whether I have not cause for complaints...