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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 6:8-13

Ungoverned passion often grows more violent when it meets with some rebuke and check. The troubled sea rages most when it dashes against a rock. Job had been courting death, as that which would be the happy period of his miseries, Job 3:1-26. For this Eliphaz had gravely reproved him, but he, instead of unsaying what he had said, says it here again with more vehemence than before; and it is as ill said as almost any thing we meet with in all his discourses, and is recorded for our admonition,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 6:14-21

Eliphaz had been very severe in his censures of Job; and his companions, though as yet they had said little, yet had intimated their concurrence with him. Their unkindness therein poor Job here complains of, as an aggravation of his calamity and a further excuse of his desire to die; for what satisfaction could he ever expect in this world when those that should have been his comforters thus proved his tormentors? I. He shows what reason he had to expect kindness from them. His expectation was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:13

Is my help in me ?.... Or "my defence" F25 עזרתי בי "defensio mea penes me", Junius et Tremellius, Piscator. , as some; is it not in my power to defend myself against the calumnies and reproaches cast upon me? it is; and, though one have no help in myself to bear my burdens, or extricate myself out of my difficulties, yet I have the testimony of a good conscience within me, that supports me; and I have the strength and force of reason and argument on my side, to defend me against... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:14

To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend ,.... An "afflicted" man is an object of pity, one that is afflicted of God; either inwardly with a wounded spirit, with a sense of God's displeasure, with divine desertions, with the arrows of the Almighty sticking in him, the poison thereof drinking up his spirits; or outwardly with diseases of body, with want of the necessaries of life, with loss of near relations, as well as substance, which was Job's case; or afflicted by... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 6:13

Is not my help in me? - My help is all in myself; and, alas! that is perfect weakness: and my subsistence, תושיה tushiyah , all that is real, stable, and permanent, is driven quite from me. My friends have forsaken me, and I am abandoned to myself; my property is all taken away, and I have no resources left. I believe Job neither said, nor intended to say, as some interpreters have it, Reason is utterly driven from me. Surely there is no mark in this chapter of his being deranged, or at... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 6:14

To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty - The Vulgate gives a better sense, Qui tollit ab amico suo misericordiam, timorem Domini dereliquit , "He who takes away mercy from his friend, hath cast off the fear of the Lord." The word למס lammas , which we render to him who is Afflicted, from מסה masah , to dissolve, or waste away, is in thirty-two of Dr. Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS. למאס lemoes , "to him that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:1-13

Job to Eliphaz: 1. Apologies and prayers. I. A DESPERATE MAN 'S DEFENCE . 1. Job ' s calamities surveyed. 2 . Job ' s grief justified. II. A MISERABLE MAN 'S PRAYER . 1 . Job ' s urgent request. "Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!" (verse 8)—that thing being death (cf. Job 3:21 ). Job longed for death as a release from his sufferings ( Job 3:13 ); Elijah, under a sense of weariness and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:1-13

The sufferer's self-justification. ( Job 6:1-30 ; Job 7:1-21 .) We have seen that Eliphaz's counsels, though well-meant, were ill-timed. They were right words ' but not fitly spoken as to person, time, and place. They cause the poor sufferer to wince afresh instead of soothing his pain. The tumult of his spirit is now aggravated into a very tempest of woe. The human spirit is a thing of moods. We have watched the marvellous changes that pass over the surface of a lake beneath a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:1-13

A true estimate of grief under the severities of affliction. Even the strong man cries for help and release. Job, in his extreme sufferings, desires that a fair judgment may be formed of them and of his complaint. Put this into one seals, and them into the other, and behold which of them is the lighter. Thus he describes them— I. THE INSUFFERABLE WEIGHT OF HIS AFFLICTION . It is as the unknown weight of the sand of the seashore. Affliction is truly as the pressure of a great... read more

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