Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 6:3
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are (b) swallowed up.
(b) My grief is so great that I lack words to express it.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are (b) swallowed up.
(b) My grief is so great that I lack words to express it.
Verse Job 6:3. _HEAVIER THAN THE SAND OF THE SEA_] This includes _two_ _ideas_: their _number_ was too great to be counted; their _weight_ was too great to be estimated....
HEAVIER THAN THE SAND OF THE SEA - That is, they would be found to be insupportable. Who could bear up the sands of the sea? So Job says of his sorrows. A comparison somewhat similar is found in Prove...
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...
_the sand of the sea_ A frequent figure for that which is infinite in weight, Proverbs 27:3, or number, Genesis 32:12, or measure, Jeremiah 33:22. _are swallowed up_ Rather, HAVE BEEN WILD, or perhaps...
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...
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...
_FOR NOW IT WOULD BE HEAVIER THAN THE SAND OF THE SEA: THEREFORE MY WORDS ARE SWALLOWED UP._ The sand. "The sand is weighty" (Proverbs 27:3). ARE SWALLOWED UP - See margin. So Psalms 77:4 - "I am so...
6:3 vehement. (f-17) Or 'uttered at random.'...
ARE SWALLOWED UP] RV 'have been rash.'...
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...
SWALLOWED UP. — That is. _words are useless and powerless to express it._ (See the margin.)...
כִּֽי ־עַתָּ֗ה מֵ חֹ֣ול יַמִּ֣ים יִכְבָּ֑ד עַ
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...
Heavier. The figure hyperbole is frequently used in Scripture, to give us some idea of what surpasses our understanding. Job intimates that he punishment was incomparably greater than his sins. As he...
(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...
FOR NOW IT WOULD BE HEAVIER THAN THE SAND OF THE SEA,.... Or "seas" z; all sand is heavy in its own nature, Proverbs 27:3; especially the sand of the sea, that which is immediately taken out of it; fo...
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. Ver. 3. _For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea_] How light soever thou, O Eliphaz, esteemest...
_For now it_ That is, my grief or calamity; _would be heavier than the sand of the sea_ Which is much heavier than dry sand. _Therefore my words are swallowed up_ My voice and spirit fail me. I cannot...
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea, his woe was heavy beyond measure; THEREFORE MY WORDS ARE SWALLOWED UP, rather, "they raved," they were spoken rashly. Although the greatness of hi...
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...
MY WORDS ARE SWALLOWED UP: That is, I want words to express my grief...
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...
IT WOULD BE HEAVIER, i.e. my grief or calamity, THAN THE SAND OF THE SEA, which is heavier than dry sand. SWALLOWED UP, as this verb is used, PROVERBS 20:25 OBADIAH 1:16. My voice and spirit faileth m...
Job 6:3 heavier H3513 (H8799) sand H2344 words H1697 rash H3886 (H8804) heavier - Proverbs 27:3;...
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 37:19; Job 37:20; Matthew 11:28; Proverbs 27:3; Psalms 40:5;...
Sea — Which is heavier than dry sand. Swallowed — My voice and spirit fail me. I cannot find, or utter words sufficient to express my sorrow or misery....