Job 6:17

_WHAT TIME THEY WAX WARM, THEY VANISH: WHEN IT IS HOT, THEY ARE CONSUMED OUT OF THEIR PLACE._ Wax warm - rather, 'At the time when (But they soon, Umbreit) they become narrower (flow in a narrower bed-literally, are bound: akin to a Syriac root), they are silent (cease to flow noisily); in the heat of the sun they are consumed (or vanish) out of their place.' First the stream flows more narrowly-then becomes silent and still: at length every trace of water disappears by evaporation under the hot sun (Umbreit). But Maurer translates like English version, 'What time they are burnt up' - i:e., dried up with summer heat х_ ZAARAB_ (H2215) - the same as _ TSAARAB_ (H6866) and _ SAARAP_ (H8313), to burn], 'they are destroyed speedily.' The parallelism supports this....

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 creature, will find it fail when it should help them; whereas those who make God their confidence, have help in the time of need, Hebrews 4:16. Those who make gold their hope, sooner or later will be ashamed of it, and of their confidence in it. It is our wisdom to cease from man. Let us put all our confidence in the Rock of ages, not in broken reeds; in the Fountain of life, not in broken cisterns. The application is very close; "for now ye are nothing." It were well for us, if we had always such convictions of the vanity of the creature, as we have had, or shall have, on a sick-bed, a death-bed, or in trouble of conscience. Job upbraids his friends with their hard usage. Though in want, he desire...

WHAT TIME - In the time; or after a time. THEY WAX WARM - Gesenius renders this word (יזרבו _y__e__zor__e__bû_) when they became narrow, and this version has been adopted by Noyes. The word occurs nowhere else. Taylor (Concord.) renders it, “to be dissolved by the heat of the sun.” Jerome, _fuerint_ _dissipati_ - “in the time in which they are scattered.” The Septuagint, τακεῖσα Θέρμης γενομένης _takeisa_ _thermēs_ _genomenēs_ - “melting at the approach of heat.” The Chaldee, “In the time in which the generation of the deluge sinned, they were scattered.” Castell says that the word זרב _zârab_ in the Piel, as the word in Chaldee (זרב _z__e__rab_) means “to

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) a declaration that the destruction with which he has been threatened (Job 4:9, Job 4:21; Job 5:2), is exactly the thing which he most longs for (Job 6:8); and (3) a r

WHAT TIME THEY WAX WARM THEY VANISH,.... The ice and the snow, which, when the weather becomes warm, they melt away and disappear; and in like manner, he suggests his friends ceased to be friends to him in a time of adversity; the sun of affliction having looked upon him, they deserted him, at least did not administer comfort to him: WHEN IT IS HOT THEY ARE CONSUMED OUT OF THEIR PLACE; when it is hot weather, and the sun has great strength then the waters, which swelled through the floods and fall of rain and snow, and which when frozen, looked black and big as if they had great depth in them, were quickly dried up, and no more to be seen in the place where they were; which still expresses the short duration of friendship among men, which Job had a sorrowful experience of....

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 life (Job 7:1) 5. Two questions: Why does God deal with me thus? Why does He not pardon? (Job 7:8) Job 6:1. He meets first of all the reproach and accusation of Eliphaz (Job 4:1). Because his sufferings are so g

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 proved like a brook that disappoints the thirsty caravan (Job 6:15). When the thaw comes, the brooks are swollen black with broken ice and melting snow (Job 6:16). But in summer they dry up (Job 6:17), and the caravan, finding no water where they expected, as a last desperate resource turn aside from the path into the desert to look for water, and perish miserably (Job 6:18). Tema (Isaiah 21:1

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 him. He is a brother noble, Whose nature is so far from doing harms That he suspects none. _Lear_, i. 2. And more sorrowful to him than any cold, critical words which they have uttered is the feeling that his friends have taken up such a position against him. This was what he had not looked for. And his disappointment is like that of the thirsty caravan that finds the long-looked-for waters dried up in the heat. Every emotion seems now to find a place in Job's mind in succession. First, his disappointment, expressed in this beautiful figure, is mixed with the feeling how unworthy his friends" conduct was. They had not acted to him as men do to one who is, as he describes himself, "despa...

MY BRETHREN HAVE DEALT DECEITFULLY— Bishop Lowth observes, that though the metaphor from overflowing waters is very frequent in other sacred writers, yet the author of the book of Job never touches upon it but once or twice throughout the whole poem, and that very slightly, though the subject afforded him frequent opportunities to do so. Indeed, says he, a different face of nature presented itself to him, whoever he was, if, according to the opinion of several learned men, the book was written in some part of Arabia; an opinion rendered more probable by that remarkable comparison in which Job likens his three friends to a _deceitful torrent,_ which is manifestly taken from the dry and sandy places of Arabia, and adorned with many images peculiar to that country....

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 forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. 15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away; 16 Which are black by reason of the ice, _And_ WHEREIN THE SNOW HIDETH ITSELF: 17 What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. 18 The caravans _that travel_ BY THE WAY OF THEM TURN ASIDE; They go up into the waste, and perish. 19 The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them. 20 They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came thither, and were confounded. 21 For now ye are