Job 6:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ To him that is afflictedc pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. ”

Job 6:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To him that is afflicted - Margin, “melteth.” The word here used ( מס mâs ) is from מסס mâsas , to melt, flow down, waste away, and here means one who pines away, or is consumed under cala...
Job 6:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Sorrowful Disappointment in his Friends. He begins by citing a proverb. The despairing man who is slipping from religion, looks for help and sympathy from his friends. The friends, however, h...
Job 6:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear...
Job 6:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

To him that is afflicted— Should a man who is utterly undone be insulted by his friend? and should he tempt him to forsake the fear of the Almighty? Heath; who observes, that this clause plainly...
Job 6:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. Pity - a proverb х checed ( H2617 )]. Checed is the love which judges indulgentl...
Job 6:14 - 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 6:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

But he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. — It is difficult to determine the precise relation of dependent clauses in an archaic language like the Hebrew; but the Authorised Version is, at all eve...
Job 6:14 - 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 6:14 - 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 6:14 - 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 6:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(14) В¶ To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. (15) My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they...
Job 6:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 G...
Job 6:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

To him that is afflicted pity [should be shewed] from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. Ver. 14. To him that is afflicted ] Heb. melted, viz. in the furnace of affliction, w...
Job 6:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

To him that is afflicted Hebrew, To him that is melted , or dissolved with afflictions: or, as Dr. Waterland renders it, To one that is wasting away; pity should be showed from his friend His...
Job 6:14 - 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 6:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

14 To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. 15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of broo...
Job 6:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

To him that is afflicted, Heb. to him that is melted or dissolved with afflictions , or in the furnace of afflictions; that is, in extreme miseries; for such persons are said to be melted, as Ps...
Job 6:14 - 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 6:14 - Scofield Reference Notes

fear ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 19:9 ).
Job 6:14 - 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 6:14 - 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 6:14 - 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 6:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

To him that is affiliated pity should be showed from his friend, or, to him who is melting on account of the fierceness of his misery, and therefore in despair, gentleness should be shown by his frie...
Job 6:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 12:26 ; 2 Corinthians 11:29 ; Galatians 6:2 ; Genesis 20:11 ; Hebrews 13:3 ; Job 16:5 ; Job 19:21 ; Job 4:3 ; Job 4:4 ; Luke 23:40 ; Proverbs 17:17 ; Psalms 36:1-3 ; Romans...
Job 6:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

To him — Heb. to him that is melted or dissolved with affections. But. &c. — But thou hast no pity for thy friend; a plain evidence that thou art guilty of what thou didst charge me with, even...

Job 6:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 6:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 6:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 6:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 6:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 6:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 6:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 6:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 6:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 6:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 6:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 6:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 6:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 6:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 6:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 6:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 6:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 6:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 6:14 - Scofield Reference Notes

Job 6:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 6:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 6:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 6:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 6:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 6:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes