“ For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid. ”
For now ye are as nothing - Margin, “or, Ye are like to it, or them.” In the margin also the word “nothing” is rendered “not.” This variety arises from a difference of reading in the Hebrew text,...
For now ye are (m) nothing; ye see [my] casting down, and are afraid. (m) That is, like this brook which deceives them who think to have water there in their need, as I looked for consolation from y...
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...
For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid. For now ye are nothing - Ye are just to me as those deceitful torrents to the caravans of Tema and Sheba; they were nothing to them;...
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...
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...
For now ye are nothing. — “Surely now ye are become like it” i.e., that wady; or, according to another reading followed in the text of the Authorised Version, “Ye have become nothing: ye have see...
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...
For now ye are nothing ,.... Once they seemed to be something to him; he thought them men wise, good, and religious, kind, bountiful, and tenderhearted; but now he found them otherwise, they were no...
For now ye are nothing; ye see [my] casting down, and are afraid. Ver. 21. For now ye are nothing ] i.e. To me nothing worth; I have no more joy of you than if you were not at all; ye are not un...
For now ye are nothing , &c. Just such are you, who, seeing my calamity, afford me no comfort, and seem afraid lest I should want something of you. Thus Job very properly applies the preceding m...
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...
He gives the reason why he charged them with deceitfulness, and compared them to these deceitful brooks. Nothing , or, as nothing ; the note of similitude being oft understood. Heb. as not , i.e....
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
2 Timothy 4:16 ; Isaiah 2:22 ; Jeremiah 17:5 ; Jeremiah 17:6 ; Jeremiah 51:9 ; Job 13:4 ; Job 2:11-13 ; Job 6:15 ; Matthew 26:31 ; Matthew 26:56 ; Proverbs 19:7 ; Psalms 38:11 ; Psalms 6...
Nothing — You are to me as if you had never come to me; for I have no comfort from you. Afraid — You are shy of me, and afraid for yourselves, lest some further plagues should come upon me, wherein...