Job 6:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. ”

Job 6:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then should I yet have comfort - Dr. Good renders this, “then would I already take comfort.” Noyes, “yet it should still be my consolation.” The literal sense is, “and there would be to me yet co...
Job 6:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; (g) for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. (g) That is, let me die at once before I come to dist...
Job 6:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job in his reply deals first of all with the charge of impatience. He catches up the word used by Eliphaz ( Job 5:2 ), and declares that his impatience does but balance his calamity ( Job 6:1 f.). T...
Job 6:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

I would harden, &c. Occurs only here.. Let me even exult in my anguish (should He not spare) that. have not concealed, &c.
Job 6:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. Then should I yet have comfort - Instead of עוד od, Yet, t...
Job 6:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Then should I yet have comfort, &c.— So should my cry still be; nay, I would raise it louder in proportion to my sufferings: let him not spare, for I dispute not the will (or words ) of the...
Job 6:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. I would harden myself - rather, 'I would exult х...
Job 6:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Job 6:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Concealed — i.e., denied. The same was the confidence of the Psalmist ( Psalms 40:9-10 ). (Comp. Acts 20:20 .)
Job 6:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1-30 ; Job 7:1-21 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own heart because no channel outside self is provided for...
Job 6:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“A Deceitful Brook” Job 6:1-30 The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of h...
Job 6:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job's answer is a magnificent and terrible outcry. First, he speaks of his pain as a protest against the method of Eliphaz. His reply is not to the deduction which Eliphaz' argument suggested, but ra...
Job 6:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(8) В¶ Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! (9) Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! (10)...
Job 6:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then should I yet have comfort ,.... Either before death, and in the midst of all his pains and sorrows, being in view of it as near at hand, and sure and certain; could he but be assured of its nea...
Job 6:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. Ver. 10. Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would h...
Job 6:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then should I yet have comfort The thoughts of my approaching death would comfort me in all my sorrows, and yield me abundantly more solace than life, with all that worldly safety, and glory, and h...
Job 6:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Job 6:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!...
Job 6:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The thoughts of my approaching death would comfort me in all my sorrows. This would solace me more than life, with all that worldly safety, and glory, and happiness which thou hast advised me to seek...
Job 6:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Justifies his complaint ( Job 6:2 ). “O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case neither apprehended nor appreciated by his friends. Desires ferventl...
Job 6:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 6:4 . The poison of the arrows absorbed his spirits. In 1822, when Campbel the missionary travelled in South Africa, a bushman shot one of his men in the back with a poisoned arrow. He languis...
Job 6:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

But Job answered and said. Job’s answer to Eliphaz We must come upon grief in one of two ways and Job seems to have come upon grief in a way that is to be deprecated. He came upon it late in li...
Job 6:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 6:1-18 . and 7. contain Job's reply to Eliphaz. In Job 6:1-18 . he confines himself to three points: (1) a justification of his "grief"— i.e. of his vexation and impatience...
Job 6:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Defends his Desire for Death
Job 6:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 2:2 ; 2 Peter 2:4 ; 2 Peter 2:5 ; Acts 20:20 ; Acts 20:27 ; Deuteronomy 29:20 ; Habakkuk 1:12 ; Habakkuk 3:3 ; Hosea 11:9 ; Isaiah 30:11 ; Isaiah 30:12 ; Isaiah 57:15 ; Job 21:3...
Job 6:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Harden — I would bear up with courage under all my torments, with the hopes of death, and blessedness after death. Spare — Not suffer me to live any longer. Concealed — As I have steadfastly believ...

Job 6:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 6:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 6:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 6:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 6:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 6:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 6:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 6:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 6:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 6:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 6:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 6:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 6:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 6:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 6:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 6:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 6:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 6:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 6:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 6:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 6:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 6:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 6:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 6:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 6:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 6:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes