“ The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. ”
The troops of Tema looked - That is, looked for the streams of water. On the situation of Tema, see Notes, Job 2:11 . This was the country of Eliphaz, and the image would be well understood by h...
The troops of Tema (l) looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. (l) They who pass by it to go into the hot countries of Arabia, think to find water there to quench their thirst but they are d...
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...
troops . caravans. companies . travellers.
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. The troops of Tema looked - The caravans coming from Tema are represented as arriving at those places where it was well known torren...
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...
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. The troops - i:e., caravans. Tema, north of Arabia Deserta, near the Syrian desert, called from Tema son of Ishmael ( Genesi...
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...
The troops of Tema. — Fürst says of Tema that it was a tract in the north of the Arabian Desert, on the borders of the Syrian one, where traffic was carried on from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterr...
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...
The troops of Tema looked ,.... A city in Arabia, so called from Tema a son of Ishmael, Genesis 25:15 ; these troops or companies were travelling ones, either that travelled to Tema, or that went f...
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. Ver. 19. The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them ] The troops, that is, the travellers, the caravan or...
The troops of Tema looked This place and Sheba were both parts of the hot and dry country of Arabia; in which waters were very scarce, and therefore precious and desirable, especially to travellers...
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...
The troops, as this word is used, Genesis 37:25 Isaiah 21:13 . Heb. the ways , put for the travellers in the ways , by a usual metonymy. And so it must needs be meant here, and in the next c...
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 Kings 10:1 ; Ezekiel 27:22 ; Ezekiel 27:23 ; Genesis 10:7 ; Genesis 25:15 ; Genesis 25:3 ; Isaiah 21:14 ; Jeremiah 25:23 ; Psalms 72:10
Tema — This place and Sheba were both parts of the hot and dry country of Arabia, in which waters were very scarce, and therefore precious and desirable, especially to travellers. Companies — Men d...