Job 6:24 ESV

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 6:1-30

JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZI. Justifies his complaint (Job 6:2).“O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case neither apprehended nor appreciated by his friends. Desires fervently that his suffering and his complaining were weighed against each other; or that his calamity and the grief occasioned by it were thoroughly considered. The weight of it beyond that of the “sand” of the sea,—too numerous to be counted and too heavy to be weighed. The greatness of it beyond his ability to... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 6:1-30

Chapter 6So Job responds to him and he says, Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamities laid in the balances together! ( Job 6:1-2 )Now, of course, picturesque, you got to see it. In those days, the balances, the scales were always balances and they had the little weights that they would put on the one side and then, you know, the grapes or whatever you were buying were put on the other side. And when the balance came to be equal, then you had the talent, the weight of the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:1-30

Job 6:4 . The poison of the arrows absorbed his spirits. In 1822, when Campbel the missionary travelled in South Africa, a bushman shot one of his men in the back with a poisoned arrow. He languished about two and forty hours in extreme pain. A hottentot said next day, he will die tomorrow about sunrise, which happened according to his calculation of the time in which others had died of those wounds. Job 6:5 . Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? This animal, often named in the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 6:1-30

Job 6:1-30But Job answered and said. Job’s answer to EliphazWe must come upon grief in one of two ways and Job seems to have come upon grief in a way that is to be deprecated. He came upon it late in life. He was in solid prosperity and positive and genuine comfort. Grief must tell heavily whenever it comes upon a man in such a condition. This accounts for his lamentation, and whine, and long-drawn threnody. He was not accustomed to it. Some have been born into trouble, and they have become... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 6:14-30

Job 6:14-30To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend.A message to doubtersSuch is the rendering of the Authorised Version; but, unfortunately, it is a rendering which misses almost entirely the thought of the sacred writer. As a glance at the context will show, the words form a part of Job’s complaint against his friends. In the darkest hour of his need, when he was despairing, and ready to faint, when, as he says, he was “forsaking” or “losing his hold of the fear of the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 6:24

Job 6:24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue. The virtue of silenceThis is the passionate outcry of a soul in trouble. Misfortune and loss have fallen heavily upon Job. His spirit is sorely stricken. The presence of Eliphaz and his many words of advice bring neither comfort nor hope, and almost in angry defiance the cry bursts from his lip. “Teach me, and I will hold my tongue. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred. How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?” Angrily... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 6:24

Job 6:24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. Ver. 24. Teach me, and I will hold my tongue ] If I be in an error, I am willing to be rectified. Hitherto you have mistook my case; and so your speech hath been to small purpose. But if you will come home to my case indeed, and weigh things in an even balance, I shall gladly submit to your more mature judgment and direction. Teach me, and you shall find that I am not indocible, that I am not as... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 6:24

Teach me: Job 5:27, Job 32:11, Job 32:15, Job 32:16, Job 33:1, Job 33:31-Micah :, Job 34:32, Psalms 32:8, Proverbs 9:9, Proverbs 25:12, James 1:19 I will: Psalms 39:1, Psalms 39:2, James 3:2 cause me: Job 10:2, Psalms 19:12 Reciprocal: Job 12:2 - ye are the people read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 6:24

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.Teach — Convince me by solid arguments.I will — I will patiently hear and gladly receive your counsels. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 6:24

Second strophe Their words, far from being forcible, have in them the elements of cruelty, Job 6:24-27. 24. Teach me If they really believe that he has been guilty of some great wrong, as their looks probably showed during the seven days of formal sorrow, it is their duty now to show him the wrong. Eliphaz had taken advantage of “the wrath” of Job to charge him with folly. Having disposed, as he thinks, of this charge, Job now demands other reasons for their cruel treatment. read more

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 6:1-30

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 6:1-30

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:1-30

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 6:1-30

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 6:14-30

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 6:24

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 6:24

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 6:24

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 6:24

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 6:24

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