Job 6:24

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 6:24

JOB'S DEMAND THAT HIS FRIENDS IDENTIFY HIS SINS"Teach me, and I will hold my peace;And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.How forcible are the words of righteousness!But your reproof, what doth it reprove?Do ye think to reprove words,Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless,And make merchandise of your friend.Now therefore be pleased to look upon me;For surely I shall not lie to your face.Return, I pray you, let there be... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 6:24

24, 25. Irony. If you can "teach me" the right view, I am willing to be set right, and "hold my tongue"; and to be made to see my error. But then if your words be really the right words, how is it that they are so feeble? "Yet how feeble are the words of what you call the right view." So the Hebrew is used (in Micah 2:10; Micah 1:9). The English Version, "How powerful," &c., does not agree so well with the last clause of the verse. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 6:24-30

Job’s invitation to his friends 6:24-30Next, Job invited his friends to identify the sin for which they believed God was punishing him. [Note: See Westermann, pp. 97-99, for a discussion of Job’s claim of innocence.] So far Eliphaz had only alluded to it. Job welcomed specific honest criticism, not arguments based on insinuations (Job 6:25). In Job 6:30 Job seems to be claiming the ability to know whether his afflictions were the result of sin or not, as a person can distinguish different... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 6:1-30

The First Speech of Job (Job 6, 7)1-13. Job, smarting under the remarks of Eliphaz, which he feels are not appropriate to his case, renews and justifies his complaints. He bemoans the heaviness of God’s hand, and wishes that He would slay him outright.2, 3. Job admits that he was rash in his remarks (in Job 3), but declares that his language was justified by his miserable condition.3. Are swallowed up] RV ’have been rash.’4. It is because he feels that his troubles are due to God that he is... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 6:1-30

Job 6:1 f The sixth and seventh chapters are molten from end to end, and run in one burning stream.... Everything which can be said by a sick man against life is in these chapters. The whole of a vast subsequent literature is summed up here, and he who has once read it may fairly ask never to be troubled with anything more upon that side. Mark Rutherford, The Deliverance, p. 13 f. 'When He does smite,' wrote General Gordon to his sister from the Red Sea in 1879, 'His arrows are almost too... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 6:1-30

VIII.MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARINGJob 6:1-30; Job 7:1-21Job SPEAKSWORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man’s own heart because no channel outside self is provided for the hot stream of thought. Now that Eliphaz has spoken, Job has something to arouse him, at least to resentment. The strength of his mind revives as he finds himself called to a battle of words. And how energetic he is! The long address of Eliphaz we saw to be incoherent, without the backbone of any clear... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Job 6:1-30

CHAPTERS 6-7 Job’s Answer 1. His Despair justified by the greatness of his suffering (Job 6:1-7 ) 2. He requests to be cut off (Job 6:8-13 ) 3. He reproacheth his friends (Job 6:14-30 ) 4. The misery of life (Job 7:1-7 ) 5. Two questions: Why does God deal with me thus? Why does He not pardon? (Job 7:8-21 ) Job 6:1-7 . He meets first of all the reproach and accusation of Eliphaz (Job 4:1-5 ). Because his sufferings are so great his utterances are so desperately wild. If Eliphaz only... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 6:24

6:24 Teach me, and I will {o} hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.(o) Show me where I have erred, and I will confess my sin. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Job 6:1-30

JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ (vv.1-30) It is remarkable that Job, being in the painful condition he was, was still able to reply in such capable and stirring language to Eliphaz. He knew that Eliphaz had not shown any understanding of Job's predicament, and he again emphasised the unutterable pain and grief that had overtaken him. He knew Eliphaz had not weighed Job's grief accurately, or he would have had more compassion for the poor sufferer (vv.2-3). Job says, "Therefore my words have been... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Job 6:1-30

FIRST SERIES OF THE DEBATE The first series of the debate may be outlined as follows: 1. With Eliphaz (chaps. 4-7) a. Speech of Eliphaz (chaps. 4-5) b. Reply of (chaps. 6-7) 2. With Bildad (chaps. 8-10) a. Speech of Bildad (chap. 8) b. Reply of Job (chaps. 9-10) 3. With Zophar (chaps. 11-14) a. Speech of Zophar (chap. 11) b. Reply of Job (chaps. 12-14) It is thought the debate may have occupied several days, by which supposition some of the difficulties of the book are removed. In the... read more

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