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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 6:19

troops = caravans. companies = travellers. read more

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 6:15-20

Job 6:15-20. My brethren have dealt deceitfully— Bishop Lowth observes, that though the metaphor from overflowing waters is very frequent in other sacred writers, yet the author of the book of Job never touches upon it but once or twice throughout the whole poem, and that very slightly, though the subject afforded him frequent opportunities to do so. Indeed, says he, a different face of nature presented itself to him, whoever he was, if, according to the opinion of several learned men, the book... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 6:16

Job 6:16. Which are blackish— Houbigant reads it, Which, after they have been congealed by the frost, and after, &c. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 6:18

Job 6:18. The paths of their way are turned aside— Here is a noble climax, a most poetical description of the torrents in hot climates. By extraordinary cold they are frozen over; but the sun no sooner exerts its power than they melt; and they are exhaled by the heat, till the stream, for smallness, is diverted into many channels; it yet lasts a little way, but is soon quite evaporated and lost. Heath. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 6:19

Job 6:19. The troops of Tema looked— Mr. Heath so translates this verse, as to introduce the speaker using an animated prosopopoeia, or addressing himself to the travellers: Look for them ye troops of Tema, ye travellers of Sheba, expect them earnestly. This gives great life to the poetry, and sets a very beautiful image before the eye: the travellers wasting their time, depending on those torrents for water; but when they come thither, how great the disappointment! They are dried up; Job 6:20.... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 6:15

15. Those whom I regarded as "my brethren," from whom I looked for faithfulness in my adversity, have disappointed me, as the streams failing from drought—wadies of Arabia, filled in the winter, but dry in the summer, which disappoint the caravans expecting to find water there. The fulness and noise of these temporary streams answer to the past large and loud professions of my friends; their dryness in summer, to the failure of the friendship when needed. The Arab proverb says of a treacherous... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 6:16

16. blackish—literally, "Go as a mourner in black clothing" ( :-). A vivid and poetic image to picture the stream turbid and black with melted ice and snow, descending from the mountains into the valley. In the [second] clause, the snow dissolved is, in the poet's view, "hid" in the flood [UMBREIT]. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

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

17. wax warm—rather, "At the time when." ("But they soon wax") [UMBREIT]. "they become narrower (flow in a narrower bed), they are silent (cease to flow noisily); in the heat (of the sun) they are consumed or vanish out of their place. First the stream flows more narrowly—then it becomes silent and still; at length every trace of water disappears by evaporation under the hot sun" [UMBREIT]. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 6:18

18. turned aside—rather, "caravans" (Hebrew, "travellers") turn aside from their way, by circuitous routes, to obtain water. They had seen the brook in spring full of water: and now in the summer heat, on their weary journey, they turn off their road by a devious route to reach the living waters, which they remembered with such pleasure. But, when "they go," it is "into a desert" [NOYES and UMBREIT]. Not as English Version, "They go to nothing," which would be a tame repetition of the drying up... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 6:19

19. the troops—that is, "caravans." Tema—north of Arabia-Deserta, near the Syrian desert; called from Tema son of Ishmael (Genesis 25:15; Isaiah 21:14; Jeremiah 25:23), still so called by the Arabs. Job 6:19; Job 6:20 give another picture of the mortification of disappointed hopes, namely, those of the caravans on the direct road, anxiously awaiting the return of their companions from the distant valley. The mention of the locality whence the caravans came gives living reality to the picture.... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 6:19

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 6:15-20

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 6:16

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 6:18

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 6:19

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 6:15

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 6:16

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

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 6:18

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 6:19

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