“ Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? ”
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? - On the habits of the wild ass, see the notes at Job 11:12 . The meaning of Job here is, that he did not complain without reason; and this he illustra...
Doth the (d) wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? (d) Do you think that I cry without cause, seeing the brute beasts do not complain when they have what they want.
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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Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? Doth the wild ass - פרא pere, translated onager, by the Vulgate, from the ονος αγριος of the Septuagint, which we properly...
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass, &c.— Grass and fodder here are a figure of abundance and tranquillity, such as the friends of Job enjoyed. To bray and low refer to expression...
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? Wild ass bray. Neither wild animals, as the wild donkey, nor tame animals, as the ox, are dissatisfied when well s...
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...
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...
(5) Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? (6) Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg? (7) The things th...
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder ?] No, they neither of them do, when the one is in a good pasture, and the other has a sufficiency of provender; but when...
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? Ver. 5. Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? ] q.d. Sure they do not. As if these creatures, wild or tame, want...
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? &c. “Grass and fodder here are a figure of abundance and tranquillity, such as the friends of Job enjoyed. To bray and low refer to expression...
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...
Job's Reply to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. 1 But Job answered and said, 2 Oh that my grief we...
Thou wonderest that my disposition and carriage is so greatly altered from what it was, Job 4:3-5 , but thou mayst easily learn the reason of it from the brute beasts, the ass and ox, who when the...
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 Defends his Desire for Death
Jeremiah 14:6 ; Joel 1:18-20 ; Psalms 104:14 ; Psalms 42:1
Doth, &c. — Even the brute beasts, when they have convenient food, are quiet and contented. So it is no wonder that you complain not, who live in ease and prosperity, any more than I did, when...