Job 6:21-27

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 6:21

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:22

Did I say, bring unto me ?.... Or, "give unto me" F2 הבו לי "date mihi", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Cocceius, Michaelis. ; did I invite you to come to me, and bring in your hands presents for me, to support me under my necessitous circumstances? or give a reward for me of your substance ? did I ever ask anything of you? if I had, it would have been but your duty to have given freely to me in my deplorable circumstances; and it might have been expected you would... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:23

Or, deliver me from the enemies' hand ?.... Or, "out of the hand of straitness" F3 מיד צר "e manu tribulatoris, vel tribulationis", Vatablus. ; out of tribulation and difficulties with which he was pressed on every side: or redeem me from the hand of the mighty ? fetch back his cattle out of the hands of the Sabeans and Chaldeans, either by force of arms, as Abraham brought back Lot, and all his goods, when taken and carried away by the four king's, or by giving a ransom price... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:24

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue ,.... Job having made his defence, and which he thought a sufficient one to acquit him of the charge against him; yet to show that he was not stubborn and flexible, but was open to conviction, and ready to attend and hearken to what might be further said, desires to be taught and instructed in the way of his duty; suggesting that, upon being convinced of his mistakes, he should ingenuously acknowledge them: good men are desirous of being taught both of God... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:25

How forcible are right words !.... That are according to right reason; such as may be called strong reasons, or bony arguments, as in Isaiah 41:21 ; there are strength and weight in such words, reasonings, and arguments; they bring evidence and conviction with them, and are very powerful to persuade the mind to an assent unto them, and have great influence to engage to a profession or practice of what they are used for; such are more especially the words of God, the Scriptures of truth,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:26

Do ye imagine to reprove words ,.... Or with words; with bare words, without any force of reasoning and argument in them? put a parcel of words together without any sense or meaning, or however without any cogency in them, and think to run me down with them? or is your scheme and device only, and which you pursue, to catch at and lay hold on some words of mine uttered in my distress, and make me an offender for a word, or for a few words, supposing they have been rashly and passionately... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:27

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless ,.... Meaning himself; who was like a fatherless child, stripped of all his mercies, of his children, his substance, and his health; and was in a most miserable, helpless, and forlorn condition; and, moreover, deprived of the gracious presence and visible protection of his heavenly Father, being given up for a while into the hands of Satan; and now it was unkind and barbarous to overwhelm such a man, who was overwhelmed with overmuch sorrow already: or, "ye... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 6:21

For now ye are nothing - Ye are just to me as those deceitful torrents to the caravans of Tema and Sheba; they were nothing to them; ye are nothing to me. Ye see my casting down - Ye see that I have been hurried from my eminence into want and misery, as the flood from the top of the mountains, which is divided, evaporated, and lost in the desert. And are afraid - Ye are terrified at the calamity that has come upon me; and instead of drawing near to comfort me, ye start back at my... read more

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