Job 6:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed. ”

• Job 6:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  They were confounded because they had hoped - The caravans of Tema and Sheba. The word “confounded” here means ashamed. It represents the state of feeling which one has who has met with disappoin...

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• Job 6:20 - 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...

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• Job 6:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

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• Job 6:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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...

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• Job 6:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed. They had hoped - literally, each had hoped-namely, that their companions would find water. The greater had be...

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• Job 6:20 - 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...

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• Job 6:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  They were confounded. — Comp. Jeremiah’s description of the famine ( Jeremiah 14:3 ). (See margin.)

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• Job 6:20 - 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...

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• Job 6:20 - 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...

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• Job 6:20 - 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...

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• Job 6:20 - 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...

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• Job 6:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And they were confounded because they had hoped ,.... When they came to the places where they hoped to find water, finding none were ashamed of their vain hope, and reflected upon themselves for bei...

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• Job 6:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed. Ver. 20. They were confounded because they had hoped, &c. ] Heb. They blushed, or they were abashed, because d...

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• Job 6:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  They were confounded That is, the troops and companies were miserably disappointed; because they hoped Comforted themselves with the expectation of water there to quench their thirst; they came,...

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• Job 6:20 - 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...

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• Job 6:20 - 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...

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• Job 6:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  They were confounded, i.e. the troops and companies. Because they had hoped; they comforted themselves with the expectation of water there to quench their thirst. Were ashamed; as having deceived...

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• Job 6:20 - 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...

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• Job 6:20 - 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...

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• Job 6:20 - 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...

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• Job 6:20 - 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...

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• Job 6:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Criticizes Eliphaz for his Conduct

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• Job 6:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Jeremiah 14:3 ; Jeremiah 14:4 ; Jeremiah 17:13 ; Romans 5:5 ; Romans 9:33

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• Job 6:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Hoped — They comforted themselves with the expectation of water. Ashamed — As having deceived themselves and others. We prepare confusion for ourselves, by our vain hopes: the reeds break under us,...

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