Job 6:27

_YEA, YE OVERWHELM THE FATHERLESS, AND YE DIG A PIT FOR YOUR FRIEND._ Ye overwhelm: - literally, 'ye cause (supply, your anger, Umbreit) a net'-namely, of sophistry (Noyes and Schuttens) - 'to fall upon the desolate (one bereft of help, like the fatherless orphan); and ye dig (a pit) for your friend' - i:e., try to ensnare him, to catch him in the use of unguarded language (Noyes). "They have prepared a net for my steps-they have digged a pit before me" (Psalms 57:6); metaphor from hunters catching wild beasts in a pit covered With brushwood to conceal it. Umbreit, from the Syriac version, and answering to his interpretation of the first clause, translates the second clause, 'Would you be indignant against your friend?' The Hebrew in Job 41:6 means to feast upon. As the first clause asks, 'Would you

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...

Verse Job 6:27. _YE OVERWHELM THE FATHERLESS_] Ye see that I am as destitute as the most _miserable orphan_; would ye overwhelm such a one? and would you _dig a pit for your friend _- do ye lay wait for me, and endeavour to entangle me in my talk? I believe this to be the spirit of Job's words....

YEA, YE OVERWHELM THE FATHERLESS - Job undoubtedly means that this should be applied to himself. He complains that they took advantage of his words, that they were disposed to pervert his meaning, and unkindly distorted what he said. The word rendered” fatherless” יתום _yâthôm_ properly denotes an orphan; Exodus 22:22; Deuteronomy 10:18; Deuteronomy 14:29. But it is possible that it is not to be taken in this limited signification here. The word is still retained in the Arabic language - the language spoken in the country where Job lived, - where the word יתום _yâthôm_ means to be lonely, bereaved, etc. It

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

YEA, YE OVERWHELM THE FATHERLESS,.... Meaning himself; who was like a fatherless child, stripped of all his mercies, of his children, his substance, and his health; and was in a most miserable, helpless, and forlorn condition; and, moreover, deprived of the gracious presence and visible protection of his heavenly Father, being given up for a while into the hands of Satan; and now it was unkind and barbarous to overwhelm such a man, who was overwhelmed with overmuch sorrow already: or, "ye cause to fall upon the fatherless"; either their wrath and anger, as the Targum and many others d instead of doing him justice; or a wall, or any such thing, to crush him, as Aben Ezra; or a lot, as Simeon bar Tzemach; see Joel 3:3; or rather a net, or a snare to entrap him in, seeking to entangle him in talk, so Mr. Broughton, which agrees with what follows: AND YE DIG [A PIT] FOR YOUR FRIEND; co

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...

YEA, YE OVERWHELM, &C.— _Yes, ye overwhelm the destitute, and make a mock at your friend._ Heath and Houbigant....