“ Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my tasteg discern perverse things? ”
Is there iniquity in my tongue? - This is a solemn appeal to their consciences, and their own deep conviction that he was sincere. Iniquity in the tongue means falsehood, deceit, hypocrisy - that...
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,...
Is there... ? cannot... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? Is there iniquity in my tongue? - Am I not an honest man? and if in my haste my tongue had uttered falsity, would not my consc...
Is there iniquity in my tongue, &c.— Must there needs be perversity in my tongue, because my palate cannot relish misery? Heath. REFLECTIONS.— 1st, Having heard with patient attention the...
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? Iniquity in my tongue. Will you say that my guilt lies in the organ of speech, and will you call it to account? or is i...
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...
Is there iniquity? — Or, injustice in my tongue? Is my taste so perverted that it cannot perceive what is perverse? “Ye appear to think that I am wholly incapable of judging my own cause because...
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...
Is there iniquity in my tongue ?.... Meaning in his words; either those which he uttered when he cursed the day on which he was born, or in charging his friends with unkindness and falsehood; otherw...
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? Ver. 30. Is there iniquity in my tongue? ] Yea, or else you shall pass for a perfect man, and well able to bridle the whole...
Is there iniquity in my tongue? Consider, if there be any iniquity, or untruth, in what I have already said, or shall further speak? Have I hitherto uttered any thing that is faulty? Cannot my tas...
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...
Consider again, and more thoroughly examine, if there be any untruth or iniquity in what I have already said, or shall further speak to you. My taste. i.e. my judgment, which discerns and judgeth o...
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
Hebrews 5:14 ; Job 12:11 ; Job 33:8-12 ; Job 34:3 ; Job 42:3-6 ; Job 6:6
Is there — Consider if there be any untruth or iniquity in what I have already said, or shall farther speak. Taste — My judgment, which judgeth of words and actions, as the palate doth of meats.