“ Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie. ”
Now, therefore, be content - Rosenmuller has better rendered this, “if it please you.” The sense is, “if you are willing, look upon me.” That is, “if you are disposed, you may take a careful view...
Now therefore be content, (r) look upon me; for [it is] evident unto you if I lie. (r) Consider whether I speak as one who is driven to this impatience through sorrow, or as a hypocrite as you conde...
Job appeals to his friends to give him a fair hearing. Let them look him in the face ( Job 6:28 ). We must imagine, says Duhm, that during Job's speech, and especially during the last sharp sayings,...
Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie. Look upon me - View me; consider my circumstances; compare my words; and you must be convinced that I have spoken nothin...
Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie. Be content - rather, be pleased to-look. Since you have so falsely judged my words, look upon me - i:e., upon my c...
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...
Now therefore be content to look upon me; for it will be evident unto you if I lie; or, for surely I shall not lie to your face.
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...
Now therefore be content ,.... Or, "may it now please you" f; Job addresses them in a respectful manner, and entreats them they would be so kind as to look favourably on him, and entertain better th...
Now therefore be content, look upon me; for [it is] evident unto you if I lie. Ver. 28. Now therefore be content, look upon me ] Let it suffice you to have thus hardly handled me; cast now a more...
Now therefore be content, look upon me Hebrew, Be willing; look upon me , or, to look upon me , the second imperative being put for the infinitive. Be pleased to consider me and my cause further...
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...
Look upon me; be pleased either, 1. To look upon my countenance, if it betrays any fear or guilt, as if I spoke contrary to my own conscience. Or rather, 2. To consider me and my cause further...
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
Job 11:3 ; Job 13:4
Look — Consider my cause better than you have done, that you may give a more righteous judgment. Evident — You will plainly discover it.