Job 6:4

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Job 6:1-30

B.—Job’s Reply: Instead of Comfort, the Friends bring him only increased SorrowJob 6:1 to Job 7:211. Justification of his complaint by pointing out the greatness and incomprehensibleness of his sufferingJob 6:1-101 But Job answered and said:2 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed,and my calamity laid in the balance together!3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;therefore my words are swallowed up.4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me,the poison... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Job 6:1-30

“A Deceitful Brook” Job 6:1-30 The burden of Job’s complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of his pain, Job 6:4 , or they would have seen it to be as natural as the braying and lowing of hungry and suffering beasts, Job 6:5 . A man would not take insipid food without complaint; how much more reason had he to complain whose tears were his meat day and night, Job 6:6-7 ! So bitter were his pains... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Job 6:1-30

Job's answer is a magnificent and terrible outcry. First, he speaks of his pain as a protest against the method of Eliphaz. His reply is not to the deduction which Eliphaz' argument suggested, but rather to the charge it made, of unreasonableness and folly manifest in his lamentation. Eliphaz had used terms of strong condemnation. Job declared, in effect, that he did not understand the cry because he did not know the pain. His vexation and calamity should be set over against each other, poised... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 6:1-13

Job 6:1-1 Chronicles : . Job in his reply deals first of all with the charge of impatience. He catches up the word used by Eliphaz ( Job 5:2), and declares that his impatience does but balance his calamity ( Job 6:1 f.). The dreadfulness of the latter is that it is from God Himself ( Job 6:4). The image is that of poisoned arrows, whose points have penetrated (within me). Job’ s spirit drinks their poison, so that he cannot help roaring. No creature complains without reason, no more does he (... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 6:4

Arrows; so he fitly calls his afflictions, because, like arrows, they came upon him swiftly and suddenly, one after another, and that from on high, and they wounded him deeply and deadly. Of the Almighty; so he calls them, either generally, because all afflictions come from him; or particularly, because God’s hand was in a singular manner eminent and visible in his miseries, Job 1:0; or yet more especially, because they were immediately shot by God into his spirit, as it follows. Are within me;... read more

Joseph Exell

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 6:4

Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. Sharp arrowsArrows are--1. Swift.2. Secret.3. Sharp.4. Killing. (J. Caryl.)The poisoned arrows of the AlmightyBy “poisoned arrows” we must understand, not only his boils, the heat and inflammation of which had dried up Job’s moisture, vigour, and strength, but all his other outward troubles also, which stuck fast in him; and his inward temptations, and sense of God’s wrath flowing therefrom, which, like the inward deep wound of the arrow,... read more

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Job 6:1-30

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Job 6:1-30

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Job 6:1-30

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 6:1-13

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 6:4

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 6:4

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