Job 6:14-23

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 6:22-30

Poor Job goes on here to upbraid his friends with their unkindness and the hard usage they gave him. He here appeals to themselves concerning several things which tended both to justify him and to condemn them. If they would but think impartially, and speak as they thought, they could not but own, I. That, though he was necessitous, yet he was not craving, nor burdensome to his friends. Those that are so, whose troubles serve them to beg by, are commonly less pitied than the silent poor. Job... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:14

To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend ,.... An "afflicted" man is an object of pity, one that is afflicted of God; either inwardly with a wounded spirit, with a sense of God's displeasure, with divine desertions, with the arrows of the Almighty sticking in him, the poison thereof drinking up his spirits; or outwardly with diseases of body, with want of the necessaries of life, with loss of near relations, as well as substance, which was Job's case; or afflicted by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:15

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook ,.... Meaning his three friends, represented by Eliphaz, who were of the same sentiments with him, and behaved towards Job as he did: these were his brethren not by birth by blood nor by country, but by the profession of the same religion of the one true and living God in opposition to the idolatrous people among whom they dwelt; and this their relation to him is an aggravation of their perfidy and treachery, unfaithfulness and deceit, by which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:16

Which are blackish by reason of the ice ,.... When frozen over, they look of a blackish colour, and is what is called a black frost; and these either describe Job and his domestics, as some F8 So Michaelis. think whom Eliphaz and his two friends compared to the above streams water passed away from, or passed by and neglected, and showed no friendship to; who were in black, mournful and rueful circumstances, through the severe hand of God upon them. The word is rendered, "those which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:17

What time they wax warm they vanish ,.... The ice and the snow, which, when the weather becomes warm, they melt away and disappear; and in like manner, he suggests his friends ceased to be friends to him in a time of adversity; the sun of affliction having looked upon him, they deserted him, at least did not administer comfort to him: when it is hot they are consumed out of their place ; when it is hot weather, and the sun has great strength then the waters, which swelled through the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:18

The paths of their way are turned aside ,.... That is, the waters, when melted by the heat of the sun, and the warmth of the weather, run, some one way, and some another in little streams and windings, till they are quite lost and the tracks of them are no more to be seen; denoting that all appearance of friendship was quite gone, and no traces of it to be found: they go to nothing, and perish : some of them are lost in little meanders and windings about, and others are exhaled by the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:19

The troops of Tema looked ,.... A city in Arabia, so called from Tema a son of Ishmael, Genesis 25:15 ; these troops or companies were travelling ones, either that travelled to Tema, or that went from thence to other places for merchandise, see Isaiah 21:13 ; these, as they passed along in their caravans, as the Turks their successors now do, looked at those places where in the wintertime they observed large waters frozen over, and covered with snow, and expected to have been supplied... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:20

And they were confounded because they had hoped ,.... When they came to the places where they hoped to find water, finding none were ashamed of their vain hope, and reflected upon themselves for being so foolish as to raise their expectations upon such a groundless surmise: they came thither, and were ashamed ; which is the same thing expressed in different words; and aptly enough describes Job's disappointment in not meeting with that relief and comfort he expected from his friends, to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:21

For now ye are nothing ,.... Once they seemed to be something to him; he thought them men wise, good, and religious, kind, bountiful, and tenderhearted; but now he found them otherwise, they were nothing to him as friends or as comforters in his distress; the "Cetib", or Scripture, is, as we read, and is followed by many; but the marginal reading is, "now ye are to it" F1 כי עתה היי־תאם לו "certe nunc fuistis illi", Bolducius; so Michaelis; "certe nunc estis similes illi",... read more

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