“ Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: ”
Which are blackish - Or, rather, which are turbid. The word used here ( קדרים qoderı̂ym ) means to be turbid, foul, or muddy, spoken of a torrent, and then to be of a dusky color, to be dark-co...
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...
Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: Blackish by reason of the ice - He represents the waters as being sometimes suddenly frozen, their foam being turned into the s...
My brethren have dealt deceitfully— Bishop Lowth observes, that though the metaphor from overflowing waters is very frequent in other sacred writers, yet the author of the book of Job never touches...
Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: Blackish - literally, Go as a mourner in black clothing ( Psalms 35:14 , end). A vivid and poetic image to picture the st...
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...
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...
“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'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...
(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...
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 h think...
Which are blackish by reason of the ice, [and] wherein the snow is hid: Ver. 16. Which are blackish by reason of the ice ] Or frost, a black frost we call it, which deceiveth those that tread upon...
Which are blackish , &c. Which in winter, when the traveller neither needs nor desires it, are full of water congealed by the frost. Wherein the snow is hid Under which the water from snow, wh...
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...
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...
Which in winter, when the traveller neither needs nor desires it, are full of water, then congealed by the frost. Wherein the snow is hid; either, 1. Under which the water, made of snow, which fo...
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 6:4 . 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...
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...
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 Criticizes Eliphaz for his Conduct
1 Chronicles 11:22 ; Deuteronomy 22:1 ; Deuteronomy 22:3 ; Ezekiel 1:22 ; Genesis 31:40 ; Isaiah 58:2 ; Jeremiah 36:30 ; Job 30:28 ; Job 37:10 ; Job 37:6 ; Job 38:29 ; Job 5:15 ; Psalms...
Which — Which in winter when the traveller neither needs nor desires it, are full of water congealed by the frost. Snow — Under which the water from snow, which formerly fell, and afterward was dis...