約伯記 17:6 RCUVTS

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 17:6

aforetime = in former times. Compare Ruth 4:7 , tabret = a drum. Hebrew. topheth. To the sound and warning of which people gave heed. See note on 1 Samuel 10:5 . After this verse imagine a pause. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 17:6

CERTAIN OF FINAL VINDICATION; JOB VOWED TO KEEP HIS INTEGRITY"But he hath made me a byword of the people;And they spit in my face.Mine eye is dim also by reason of sorrow,And all my members are as a shadow.Upright men shall be astonished at this,And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.Yet shall the righteous hold on his way,And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.But as for you all, come on now again;And I shall not find a wise man among you.My days are... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 17:6

Job 17:6. He hath made me also a by-word— But they have marked me out for a by-word of the people; nay, I am even a prodigy in their sight. Heath. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 17:6

6. He—God. The poet reverentially suppresses the name of God when speaking of calamities inflicted. by-word— (Deuteronomy 28:37; Psalms 69:11). My awful punishment makes my name execrated everywhere, as if I must have been superlatively bad to have earned it. aforetime . . . tabret—as David was honored (1 Samuel 18:6). Rather from a different Hebrew root, "I am treated to my face as an object of disgust," literally, "an object to be spit upon in the face" (1 Samuel 18:6- :). So Raca means (1... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 17:1-16

2. Job’s second reply to Eliphaz chs. 16-17This response reflects Job’s increasing disinterest in the words of his accusers. He warned them and then proceeded to bewail his isolation. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 17:6-16

Job’s despair in the face of death 17:6-16Job proceeded to accuse God of making him a byword (proverb) to others (Job 17:6). Perhaps parents were pointing to him as an example of what happens to a person who lives a hypocritical life. One writer suggested that Job 17:6 should read, "Therefore I repudiate and repent of dust and ashes." [Note: Dale Patrick, "The Translation of Job XVII 6," Vetus Testamentum 26:3 (July 1976):369-71.] This statement would express Job’s intention to abandon... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 17:1-16

Job’s Fourth Speech (concluded)1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises of restoration in the present life.1. RV ’My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.’ The v. is connected with Job 16:22. 2. Job rejects the delusive hopes of restoration held out by the friends.3. RV ’Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; who is there that will strike hands with me?’... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 17:6

(6) He (i.e., God) hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.—Or, I am become as a tabret, or drum openly, i.e., a signal of warning. “My case will be fraught with warning for others.” But some render it, “I am become an open abhorrence, or one in whose face they spit.” The general meaning is perfectly clear, though the way it may be expressed varies. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 17:1-16

Job 17:11 Happy is the man, no matter what his lot may be otherwise, who sees some tolerable realization of the design he has set before him in his youth or in his earlier manhood. Many there are who, through no fault of theirs, know nothing but mischance and defeat. Either sudden calamity overturns in tumbling ruins all they had painfully toiled to build, and success for ever afterwards is irrecoverable; or, what is most frequent, each day brings its own special hindrance, in the shape of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 17:1-16

XIV."MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN"Job 16:1-22; Job 17:1-16Job SPEAKSIF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying terms, then Job should have been comforted. But his friends had lost sight of their errand, and he had to recall them to it."I have heard many such things: Afflictive comforters are ye all. Shall vain words have an end?"He would have them consider that perpetual harping on one string is but a sober... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 17:6

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 17:6

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 17:6

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 17:6

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 17:1-16

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 17:6-16

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 17:1-16

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 17:6

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 17:1-16

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 17:1-16

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