Job 6:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my wordsb are swallowed up. ”

• Job 6:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Heavier than the sand of the sea - That is, they would be found to be insupportable. Who could bear up the sands of the sea? So Job says of his sorrows. A comparison somewhat similar is found in...

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• Job 6:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are (b) swallowed up. (b) My grief is so great that I lack words to express it.

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• Job 6:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job in his reply deals first of all with the charge of impatience. He catches up the word used by Eliphaz ( Job 5:2 ), and declares that his impatience does but balance his calamity ( Job 6:1 f.). T...

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• Job 6:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. Heavier than the sand of the sea - This includes two ideas: their number was too great to be counted; their...

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• Job 6:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. The sand. "The sand is weighty" ( Proverbs 27:3 ). Are swallowed up - See margin. So Psalms 77:...

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• Job 6:3 - 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 6:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Swallowed up. — That is. words are useless and powerless to express it. (See the margin.)

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• Job 6:3 - 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 6:3 - 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 6:3 - 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 6:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) В¶ But Job answered and said, (2) Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! (3) For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my wo...

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• Job 6:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea ,.... Or "seas" z; all sand is heavy in its own nature, Proverbs 27:3 ; especially the sand of the sea, that which is immediately taken out of i...

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• Job 6:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. Ver. 3. For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea ] How light soever thou, O Eliphaz, esteemes...

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• Job 6:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For now it That is, my grief or calamity; would be heavier than the sand of the sea Which is much heavier than dry sand. Therefore my words are swallowed up My voice and spirit fail me. I canno...

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• Job 6:3 - 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 6:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job's Reply to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520.       1 But Job answered and said,   2 Oh that my grief we...

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• Job 6:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  It would be heavier, i.e. my grief or calamity, than the sand of the sea, which is heavier than dry sand. Swallowed up, as this verb is used, Proverbs 20:25 Obadiah 1:16 . My voice and spi...

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• Job 6:3 - 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 6:3 - 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 6:3 - 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 6:3 - 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 6:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Defends his Desire for Death

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• Job 6:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 37:19 ; Job 37:20 ; Matthew 11:28 ; Proverbs 27:3 ; Psalms 40:5 ; Psalms 77:4

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• Job 6:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Sea — Which is heavier than dry sand. Swallowed — My voice and spirit fail me. I cannot find, or utter words sufficient to express my sorrow or misery.

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