The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:17
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place (see the passage quoted from Dr. Geikie in the comment on Job 6:15 ). read more
Job 6:15-17 Niv
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:15
My brethren - To wit, the three friends who had come to condole with him. He uses the language of brethren, to intimate what he had a right to expect from them. It is common in all languages to give the name brethren to friends.Have dealt deceitfully - That is, I have been sadly disappointed. I looked for the language of condolence and compassion; for something to cheer my heart, and to uphold me in my trials - as weary and thirsty travelers look for water and are sadly disappointed when they... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:16
Which are blackish - Or, rather, which are turbid. The word used here (קדרים qoderı̂ym) means to be turbid, foul, or muddy, spoken of a torrent, and then to be of a dusky color, to be dark-colored, as e. g. the skin scorched by the sun, Job 30:28; or to be dark - as when the sun is obscured; Joel 2:10; Joel 3:15. Jerome renders it, Qui timent pruinam - “which fear the frost, when the snow comes upon them.” The Septuagint renders it, “they who had venerated me now rushed upon me like snow or... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:17
What time - In the time; or after a time.They wax warm - Gesenius renders this word (יזרבו yezorebû) when they became narrow, and this version has been adopted by Noyes. The word occurs nowhere else. Taylor (Concord.) renders it, “to be dissolved by the heat of the sun.” Jerome, fuerint dissipati - “in the time in which they are scattered.” The Septuagint, τακεῖσα Θέρμης γενομένης takeisa thermēs genomenēs - “melting at the approach of heat.” The Chaldee, “In the time in which the... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:15
Job 6:15 . My brethren That is, my kinsmen, or three friends; for though Eliphaz only had spoken, the other two had shown their approbation of his discourse; have dealt deceitfully Under a pretence of friendship dealing unmercifully with me, and adding to the afflictions which they said they came to remove. As the stream of brooks, &c. Which quickly vanish and deceive the hopes of the thirsty traveller. It is no new thing for even brethren to deal deceitfully. It is therefore our... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:16
Job 6:16. Which are blackish, &c. Which in winter, when the traveller neither needs nor desires it, are full of water congealed by the frost. Wherein the snow is hid Under which the water from snow, which formerly fell, and afterward was dissolved, lies hid. So he speaks not of those brooks which are fed by a constant spring, but of them which are filled by accidental falls of water or snow. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:17-18
Job 6:17-18. What time they wax warm When the weather grows milder, and the frost and snow are dissolved; they vanish נצמתו , nitsmathu, ex cisi sunt, they are cut off, having no fountain from whence to draw a supply. When it is hot In the hot season, when waters are most refreshing and necessary; they are consumed out of their place The place where the traveller expected to find them to his comfort; but they are gone he knows not whither. The paths of their way are turned aside ... 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 6:15
the stream of brooks. Hebrew. , aphik = a, torrent restrained in a narrow channel, natural or artificial, open as in a gorge, or covered as in an aqueduct, passing away, inaccessible, and out of sight. See note on first occurrence, 2 Samuel 22:16 . read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:16
Which are blackish by reason of the ice . Job seems to have seen wadys where, in the winter-time, the water was actually frozen into hard black ice. This scarcely occurs now in the countries bordering on Palestine; but may have occurred in the region where Job dwelt, formerly. "Dark, turbid water" can scarcely be intended. And wherein the snow is hid. Some suppose melted snow to be meant; but the deep wadies in the Hauran and elsewhere would easily conceal snowdrifts. read more