约伯记 6:4 CUVS

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:4

Job 6:4. The arrows of the Almighty are within me, &c. The sublimity of style, and beautiful vein of poetry, which run through this verse, are well deserving of the reader’s particular attention. He fitly terms his afflictions arrows, because, like arrows, they came upon him swiftly and suddenly, one after another, and that from on high, and wounded him deeply. And he calls them arrows of the Almighty, not only, generally speaking, because all afflictions come from him, but... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 6:1-30

Job’s reply to Eliphaz (6:1-7:21)Eliphaz had rebuked Job for his impatient outburst. In reply Job acknowledges that God is the one who has sent this affliction, but he points out that if Eliphaz knew how great this suffering was he would understand why Job spoke rashly (6:1-4). An animal cries out only with good reason (for example, if it is hungry for food). Job likewise cries out only with good reason. His tormenting thoughts and Eliphaz’s useless words are to him like food that makes him... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 6:4

arrows. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6 . Compare Deuteronomy 32:23 , Deuteronomy 32:42 .Psalms 38:2 .Ezekiel 5:16 . Zechariah 9:14 . THE ALMIGHTY. Hebrew Shaddai. App-4 . drinketh = draineth. spirit. Hebrew. ruach. App-9 . Perhaps in the sense of taking away his courage. terrors. Only here and Psalms 88:16 . GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 6:4

Job 6:4. The terrors of God, &c.— The terrors of the Lord confound me. Houbigant. "This," says one, "is uttered by the patient man, when he would excuse his passion by the terror and agony that he was in. He had patience enough for the oppression and rapine of his enemies, for the unkindness and reproach of his friends, and for the cunning and malice of the devil; but he was so tormented with the sense of God's anger against him, that he could not bear that with temper: the apprehension... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 6:4

4. arrows . . . within me—have pierced me. A poetic image representing the avenging Almighty armed with bow and arrows (Psalms 38:2; Psalms 38:3). Here the arrows are poisoned. Peculiarly appropriate, in reference to the burning pains which penetrated, like poison, into the inmost parts—("spirit"; as contrasted with mere surface flesh wounds) of Job's body. set themselves in array—a military image (Judges 20:33). All the terrors which the divine wrath can muster are set in array against me... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 6:1-7

Job’s reason for complaining 6:1-7Job said he complained because of his great irritation. His calamities were as heavy as wet sand (Job 6:2-3). The Hebrew word translated "iniquity" in Job 6:2 occurs only here in the Old Testament. We should probably translate it "calamity" or "misfortune." Job implied that his words of complaint were nothing in comparison to his suffering. His situation was harder for him to bear because he believed his misfortune came from God."The God he had known and the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 6:1-21

2. Job’s first reply to Eliphaz chs. 6-7Job began not with a direct reply to Eliphaz but with another complaint about his condition. Then he responded to Eliphaz’s speech but addressed all three of his friends. The "you" and "yours" in Job 6:24-30 are plural in the Hebrew text. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 6:1-30

The First Speech of Job (Job 6, 7)1-13. Job, smarting under the remarks of Eliphaz, which he feels are not appropriate to his case, renews and justifies his complaints. He bemoans the heaviness of God’s hand, and wishes that He would slay him outright.2, 3. Job admits that he was rash in his remarks (in Job 3), but declares that his language was justified by his miserable condition.3. Are swallowed up] RV ’have been rash.’4. It is because he feels that his troubles are due to God that he is... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 6:4

(4) The poison whereof drinketh up my spirit.—Rather, the poison whereof my spirit imbibeth, the rendering of the Authorised Version being ambiguous.Do set themselves in array against me.—Like hosts marshalling themselves for battle. “If the ox or the ass will not low or bray so long as he is satisfied, so neither should I complain if I had no valid cause. My groaning is the evidence of a great burden, and consequently the disdainful way in which you treat it is insipid and distasteful to me—my... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 6:1-30

Job 6:1 f The sixth and seventh chapters are molten from end to end, and run in one burning stream.... Everything which can be said by a sick man against life is in these chapters. The whole of a vast subsequent literature is summed up here, and he who has once read it may fairly ask never to be troubled with anything more upon that side. Mark Rutherford, The Deliverance, p. 13 f. 'When He does smite,' wrote General Gordon to his sister from the Red Sea in 1879, 'His arrows are almost too... read more