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Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:1

Job 6:1. Job answered and said Eliphaz concluded his discourse with an air of assurance, being very confident that what he had advanced was so plain and so pertinent that nothing could be objected to it. Job, however, is not at all convinced by it, but still justifies himself in his complaints, and condemns his friend for the weakness of his arguing. Though Eliphaz, in the beginning and some other parts of his speech, was very severe upon Job, he gave him no interruption, but heard him... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:2

Job 6:2. O that my grief The cause of my grief; were thoroughly weighed Were fully understood and duly considered! O that I had an impartial judge! that would understand my case, and see whether I have not just cause for such bitter complaints. And my calamity laid in the balances Would to God some more equal person than you would lay my complaint and my sufferings one against the other, and judge sincerely which is heaviest! read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:3

Job 6:3 . For now it That is, my grief or calamity; would be heavier than the sand of the sea Which is much heavier than dry sand. Therefore my words are swallowed up My voice and spirit fail me. I cannot find or utter words sufficient to express my sorrow or misery. read more

Joseph Benson

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 6:1

answered = spake, but Hebrew Idiom = replied. See note on Job 4:1 and Deuteronomy 1:41 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 6:2

Oh. Figure of speech Ecphonesis. App-6 . my grief: i.e. the cause of my grief. 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

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 6:1

JOB 6JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ:JOB DEFENDS THE RASHNESS OF HIS LAMENTJob 6:1-7"Then Job answered and said,Oh that my vexation were but weighed,And all my calamity laid in the balances!For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas;Therefore have my words been rash.For the arrows of the Almighty are within me,The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up:The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass?Or loweth the ox over his fodder?Can that... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 6:1

CHAP. VI. Job sheweth that his complaints are not causeless: he wisheth for death, wherein he is assured of comfort: he reproves his friends for their unkindness. Before Christ 1645. Job 6:1. But Job answered and said— Job begins his defence with a modest apology for venting his grief in a manner somewhat unbecoming, and begs that it may be ascribed to the great multitude and sharpness of his afflictions; Job 6:3-7. But as to the advice given him by Eliphaz, to hope for an amendment of his... read more

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