約伯記 6:13-14 CUNPTS

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:13

Is not my help in me? rather, Is it not that I have no help in me? (Revised Version). Job feels that, instead of having exceptional strength of constitution to enable him to bear up against his exhausting malady, he is absolutely without strength. All his vital power is used up. There is no help in him. And is wisdom driven quite from me? rather, Is not soundness driven quite from me? Tushiyah seems to mean here "strength of constitution"—that internal soundness which resists the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:14

To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend . Job begins here the third head of his reply to Eliphaz, in which he attacks him and his companions. The first duty of a comforter is to compassionate his afflicted friend, to condole with him, and show his sympathy with his sufferings. This is what every one looks for and expects as a matter of course. But Job has looked in vain. He has received no pity, no sympathy. Nothing has been offered him but arguments. And what... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:14

The claims of the suffering on the pity of friends. Job's friends come to condole with him. They are staggered by the severity of his sufferings, and remain silenced before him. When they open their lips they seem not only to try to account for the affliction, but they also appear to be anxious to justify their own inability to comfort their suffering friend. Their words add to Job's heavy affliction instead of lightening his burden, and he cries out in his bitterness, "To him that is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:14

.— The redeeming power of sympathy. Job tells his friend that he has gone to work in a wrong way, and one which might have had most disastrous results, the opposite of those he aimed at. Eliphaz honestly intended to bring Job to God in contrite submission, but his harsh and unwise conduct was only calculated to drive the troubled man from God in wild despair. He should have chosen the " more excellent way' of sympathy. I. THE SECRET OF THE REDEEMING POWER OF SYMPATHY ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:14-21

The illusions of friendship. Oh, how sweet and blessed at this hour would the ministries of true friendship be! Job, in the shipwreck of fortune and of health, is like a poor swimmer clinging to a spar or fragment of rock with ebbing strength, looking vainly for the lifeboat, and the strong, rescuing arms of friends and saviours. Instead of this, his friends stand aloof, and lecture and lesson him on the supposed folly which has steered his bark upon the breakers. Here we see in one glance... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:14-30

Job to Eliphaz: 2. Reproofs and retorts. I. UNKINDNESS REPROVED . The behaviour of Eliphaz (and his friends) was: 1 . Unnatural. Compassion for a suffering fellow-creature, much more for a friend, was a dictate of humanity (verse 14). The condition of Job pre-eminently claimed pitiful consideration. He was not only melting away, bodily and mentally, but spiritually he was in danger of "forsaking the fear of the Almighty," i.e. losing his hold on God, on God's love and favour... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:13

Is not my help in me? - This would be better rendered in an affirmative manner, or as an exclamation. The interrogative form of the previous verses need not be continued in this. The sense is, “alas! there is no help in me!” That is, “I have no strength; I must give up under these sorrows in despair.” So it is rendered by Jerome, Rosenmuller, Good, Noyes, and others.And is wisdom quite driven from me? - This, also, should be read as an affirmation, “deliverance is driven from me.” The word... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:14

To him that is afflicted - Margin, “melteth.” The word here used (מס mâs) is from מסס mâsas, to melt, flow down, waste away, and here means one who pines away, or is consumed under calamities. The design of this verse is, to reprove his friends for the little sympathy which they had shown for him. He had looked for consolation in his trials, and he had a right to expect it; but he says that he had met with just the opposite, and that his calamity was aggravated by the fact that they had dealt... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:13

Job 6:13. Is not my help in me? Though I have no strength in my body, or outward man, yet I have some help and support within me, or in my inward man, even a consciousness of my sincerity toward God, notwithstanding all your bitter accusations and censures, as if I were a hypocrite and had no integrity in me, chap. Job 4:6. And is wisdom driven quite from me? If I have no strength in my body, have I therefore no wisdom or judgment left in my soul? Am I therefore unable to judge of the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:14

Job 6:14. To him that is afflicted Hebrew, To him that is melted, or dissolved with afflictions: or, as Dr. Waterland renders it, To one that is wasting away; pity should be showed from his friend His friend, such as thou, O Eliphaz, pretendest to be to me, should show kindness and compassion in his judgment of him, and behaviour toward him, and not pass such unmerciful censures upon him as thou hast passed upon me, nor load him with reproaches; but he forsaketh the fear of the... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:14-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:14-30

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:14

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:13

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:14

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