Job 6:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.f ”

• Job 6:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Return, I pray you - That is, return to the argument. Give your attention to it again. Perhaps he may have discerned a disposition in them to turn away from what he was saying, and to withdraw an...

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• Job 6:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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,...

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• Job 6:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it. Return, I pray you - Reconsider the whole subject. Do not be offended. Yea, reconsider the subject; my righ...

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• Job 6:29 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Return, I pray you; let it not be iniquity— Recollect yourselves, I beseech you; call it not wickedness: nay, consider it yet again; righteousness may be in me. Chappelow.

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• Job 6:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it. Return - namely, from the wrong course which ye have entered on in your conference with me - i:e., re...

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• Job 6:29 - 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 6:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Return, I pray you. — “Do not regard the case as settled, but come again and examine it; try once more before you decide there is no unrighteousness in my case;” or, as some understand it, in my t...

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• Job 6:29 - 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 6:29 - 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 6:29 - 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 6:29 - 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 6:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Return, I pray you ,.... From the ill opinion you have of me, and from your hard censures, and entertain other sentiments concerning me: or it may be, upon these words of Job his friends might be ri...

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• Job 6:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness [is] in it. Ver. 29. Return, I pray you ] Change your minds of me, and your language to me, Bona verba quaeso; I...

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• Job 6:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Return, I pray, let it not be iniquity Or, Recollect yourselves, I beseech you; call it not wickedness: yea, return again; my righteousness is in it Or, Consider it yet again, righteousness may...

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• Job 6:29 - 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 6:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        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...

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• Job 6:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Turn from your former course of perverse judgment; lay aside passion and prejudice against me; let me beg your second thoughts and a serious review of my case. Let it not be iniquity, to wit, in yo...

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• Job 6:29 - 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 6:29 - 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 6:29 - 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 6:29 - 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 6:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Criticizes Eliphaz for his Conduct

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• Job 6:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 17:10 ; Job 27:4-6 ; Malachi 3:18

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• Job 6:29 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Return — Turn from your former judgment. Iniquity — Or, there shall be no iniquity, in my words. Righteousness — In this cause or matter between you and me; and you will find the right to be on my...

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