Job 6:8-13

Job’s desperate condition 6:8-13

Job longed for death. He wished God would release him from his enslavement to life (cf. Psalms 105:20) and snip off his life as a weaver cuts thread (Job 6:9).

"Life is like a weaving, and only God can see the total pattern and when the work is finished." [Note: Wiersbe, p. 20.]

Job affirmed his faithfulness to God’s words (Job 6:10) but acknowledged that he had no hope and no help to live. Job 6:13 should read as an affirmation rather than as a question: "Indeed my help . . . and deliverance is driven from me."

"The fact that Job speaks about God in the third person should not be permitted to give the wrong impression. He is actually praying, not talking to Eliphaz. Such a convention is common in the respectful address to a superior." [Note: Andersen, p. 129.]