“ Yea, ye overwhelme the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. ”
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless - Job undoubtedly means that this should be applied to himself. He complains that they took advantage of his words, that they were disposed to pervert his meaning...
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...
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. Ye overwhelm the fatherless - Ye see that I am as destitute as the most miserable orphan; would ye overwhelm such a one? and woul...
Yea, ye overwhelm, &c.— Yes, ye overwhelm the destitute, and make a mock at your friend. Heath and Houbigant.
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. Ye overwhelm: - literally, 'ye cause (supply, your anger, Umbreit) a net'-namely, of sophistry (Noyes and Schuttens) - 'to...
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...
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless. — Rather, probably, Ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend. This is more in accordance with the language, and preserves the...
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...
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless ,.... Meaning himself; who was like a fatherless child, stripped of all his mercies, of his children, his substance, and his health; and was in a most miserable, hel...
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend. Ver. 27. Yea, you overwhelm the fatherless ] Heb. Ye throw yourselves upon the fatherless, that is, upon miserable me, who am...
Ye overwhelm the fatherless Your words are not only vain, useless, and uncomfortable to me, but also grievous and pernicious. Hebrew, תפילו, tappilu, you rush , or throw yourselves upon him. You...
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...
Yea; your words are not only vain, and useless, and uncomfortable to me, but also grievous and pernicious. Ye overwhelm, Heb. you rush or throw yourselves upon him. For words in hiphil are of...
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
Exodus 22:22-24 ; Ezekiel 22:7 ; James 1:27 ; Jeremiah 18:20 ; Jeremiah 18:22 ; Job 22:9 ; Job 24:3 ; Job 24:9 ; Job 29:12 ; Job 31:17 ; Job 31:21 ; Malachi 3:5 ; Proverbs 23:10 ; Prove...
Overwhelm — You load with censures and calumnies. Desolate — Me who am deprived of all my children, my estate, and my friends. I spoke all I thought, as to my friends, and you thence occasion to ca...