“ How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? ”
How forcible are right words! - How weighty and impressive are words of truth! Job means that he was accustomed to feel their power, and to admit it on his soul. If their words were such, he woul...
How (p) forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? (p) He who has a good conscience does not shrink at the sharp words or reasonings of others, unless they are able to persuade hi...
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...
words . sayings. reprove . convince, or confute: i.e. what can. reproof from you reprove? See translation, below.
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? How forcible are right words - A well-constructed argument, that has truth for its basis, is irresistible. But what doth your arguin...
How forcible are right words!— How persuasive are the words of an impartial man! But how shall a man defend himself, whom you have already condemned? The reason is, they had condemned him unheard...
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. Irony. If you can teach me the right view, I am willing to be set right and hold my tongue, and to be made...
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...
How forcible are right words ! — “How forcible are words of uprightness! But what doth your reproof reprove? Open rebuke is better than secret love; better to be honestly and openly rebuked by you t...
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...
How forcible are right words !.... That are according to right reason; such as may be called strong reasons, or bony arguments, as in Isaiah 41:21 ; there are strength and weight in such words, re...
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? Ver. 25. How forcible are right words ] How sweet, saith the Chaldee, interpreting it by Psalms 119:103 . It may be read Nimlets...
Teach me Instead of censuring and reproaching, instruct and convince me by solid arguments; and I will hold my tongue I will patiently hear and gladly receive your counsels; and cause me to unde...
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...
22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? 23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? 24 Teach me, and I will hold m...
Right words, i.e. the words of truth or solid arguments, have a marvellous power to convince and persuade a man; and if yours were such, I should readily yield to them. Your arguing reprove; or,...
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
Ecclesiastes 12:10 ; Ecclesiastes 12:11 ; Job 13:5 ; Job 16:3 ; Job 16:4 ; Job 16:5 ; Job 21:34 ; Job 24:25 ; Job 32:3 ; Job 4:4 ; Proverbs 12:18 ; Proverbs 16:21-24 ; Proverbs 18:21 ;...
Forcible — The words of truth have a marvellous power. Reprove — But there is no truth in your assertions or weight in your arguments.