ヨブ記 6:1-4 JC

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:1-30

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:2

Scales for misery. At length Job has an opportunity to reply to his friend's harangue, and he at once touches on its weak point by implication. Eliphaz has not been sufficiently sympathetic; he has not duly appreciated Job's "abysmal and boundless misery." His wise precepts may apply to some extent to the afflictions of ordinary men, but they are vitiated by his failure to enter into the abnormal distresses of Job. The cursing of his day, which has been wrung out of Job by very anguish of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:3

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea (comp. Proverbs 27:3 , "A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both;" see also Ecclesiasticus 22:15 ). Therefore my words are swallowed up ; rather, as in the Revised Version, therefore have my words been rash. Job here excuses without justifying himself. The excessive character of his sufferings has, he declares, forced him to utter rash and violent words, as these wherein he cursed his day... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are wlthin me (comp. Psalms 38:2 , "For thine arrows stick fast in me"). So Shakespeare speaks of "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" for calamities generally. The metaphor is a very common one (see Deuteronomy 32:23 , Deuteronomy 32:42 ; Psalms 7:13 ; Psalms 21:12 ; Psalms 45:5 ; Lamentations 3:13 , Lamentations 3:14 ). The poison whereof . Poisoned arrows, such as are now employed by the savage tribes of Central Africa, were common... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:4

The arrows of the Almighty. The first thought that occurs to Job when he attempts to describe his trouble to his misjudging friend is that that trouble has been produced by shafts from heaven. Here is the exceeding bitterness of his grief. He regards his calamities as more than natural mischances; such a terrible conjunction of disasters points to a superhuman source. Thus Job is Scourged by his faith. His theism adds an agony which the materialist would not feel. I. THE TERROR OF ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:2

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; Deuteronomy 32:19; Ezekiel 20:28. It is rendered by the Septuagint here, ὀργή orgē - anger; by Jerome, peccata - sins. The sense of the whole passage may either be, that Job wished his anger or his complaints to be laid in the balance with his calamity, to see if one was more weighty than the other -... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:3

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 Proverbs 27:3.Heavy is a stone, and weighty the sand of the Sea,But a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.My words are swallowed up - Margin, “I want words to express my grief.” This expresses the true sense - but not with the same poetic beauty. We express the same idea when we say that we are... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me - That is, it is not a light affliction that I endure. I am wounded in a manner which could not be caused by man - called to endure a severity of suffering which shows that it proceeds from the Almighty. Thus called to suffer what man could not cause, he maintains that it is right for him to complain, and that the words which he employed were not an improper expression of the extent of the grief.The poison whereof drinketh up my spirit - Takes away... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:1-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:1-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:1-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:4

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