Job 6:1-15 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 6:1-7

Eliphaz, in the beginning of his discourse, had been very sharp upon Job, and yet it does not appear that Job gave him any interruption, but heard him patiently till he had said all he had to say. Those that would make an impartial judgment of a discourse must hear it out, and take it entire. But, when he had concluded, he makes his reply, in which he speaks very feelingly. I. He represents his calamity, in general, as much heavier than either he had expressed it or they had apprehended it,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 6:8-13

Ungoverned passion often grows more violent when it meets with some rebuke and check. The troubled sea rages most when it dashes against a rock. Job had been courting death, as that which would be the happy period of his miseries, Job 3:1-26. For this Eliphaz had gravely reproved him, but he, instead of unsaying what he had said, says it here again with more vehemence than before; and it is as ill said as almost any thing we meet with in all his discourses, and is recorded for our admonition,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 6:14-21

Eliphaz had been very severe in his censures of Job; and his companions, though as yet they had said little, yet had intimated their concurrence with him. Their unkindness therein poor Job here complains of, as an aggravation of his calamity and a further excuse of his desire to die; for what satisfaction could he ever expect in this world when those that should have been his comforters thus proved his tormentors? I. He shows what reason he had to expect kindness from them. His expectation was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:1

But Job answered and said. Though Eliphaz thought his speech was unanswerable, being, as he and his friends judged, unquestionably true, and the fruit of strict, laborious, and diligent search and inquiry; or, "then Job answered" F20 ויען "tunc respondit", Drusius. , as the same particle is rendered, Job 4:1 ; after he had heard Eliphaz out; he waited with patience until he had finished his discourse, without giving him any interruption, though there were many things that were very... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:2

Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed ,.... Or, "in weighing weighed" F21 שקול ישקל "librando, libraretur", Cocceius, Schultens. , most nicely and exactly weighed; that is, his grievous affliction, which caused so much grief of heart, and which had been shown in words and gestures; or his "wrath" and "anger" F23 כעשי "ira mea", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius, Schmidt, &c.; so the Targum and Sept. , as others render it: not his anger against Eliphaz, as Sephorno, but as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:3

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea ,.... Or "seas" F26 ימים "marium", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Piscator, Michaelis, Schultens. ; all sand is heavy in its own nature, Proverbs 27:3 ; especially the sand of the sea, that which is immediately taken out of it; for that on the shore is lighter, being dried by the winds and heat of the sun, but the other is heavier, through the additional weight of water; and much more especially how heavy must all the sand of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me ,.... Which are a reason proving the weight and heaviness of his affliction, and also of his hot and passionate expressions he broke out into; which designs not so much outward calamities, as famine, pestilence, thunder and lightning, which are called the arrows of God, Deuteronomy 32:23 ; all which had attended Job, and were his case; being reduced to extreme poverty, had malignant and pestilential ulcers upon him, and his sheep destroyed by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:5

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? No, they neither of them do, when the one is in a good pasture, and the other has a sufficiency of provender; but when they are in want of food, the one will bray, and the other will low, which are tones peculiar to those creatures, and express their mournful complaints; wherefore Job suggests, that should he make no moan and complaint in his sorrowful circumstances, he should be more stupid and senseless than those... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:6

Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt ?.... As any sort of pulse, peas, beans, lentiles, &c.; which have no savoury and agreeable taste unless salted, and so many other things; and are disagreeable to men, and not relished by them, and more especially things bitter and unpleasant; and therefore Job intimates, it need not seem strange that the wormwood and water of gall, or the bread of adversity and water of affliction, he was fed with, should be so distasteful to him, and he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:7

The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat. Meaning either the above things, that which is unsavoury, and the white of an egg, of any other food, which in the time of his prosperity he would not touch with his fingers, much less eat, but now was glad of, and were his constant food in his present sorrowful circumstances; the sense given by some Jewish writers F9 Jarchi & R. Mesallem in ib. is, that what he disdained to touch or wipe his hands with... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 6:1-7

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 6:8-13

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 6:14-21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:7

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