“ The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat. ”
The things that my soul refused to touch - That I refused to touch - the word “soul” here being used to denote himself. The idea here is, that those things which formerly were objects of loathing...
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...
soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13. meat . bread. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), App-6, put for all kinds of food.
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
The things that my soul refuseth, &c.— Job, persisting in his allegory, goes on to shew how disagreeable to his stomach the speech of Eliphaz had been, says Schultens, who translates the verse...
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat. To touch is contrasted with meat. 'My taste refused even to touch it, and yet am I fed with such meat of sickness.' The seco...
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...
The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat. Meaning either the above things, that which is unsavoury, and the white of an egg, of any other food, which in the time of his...
The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat. Ver. 7. The things that my soul refused to touch, &c. ] I suffer such torments even in my very soul, as the very thought...
The things that my soul refused , &c. “Job, persisting in his allegory,” says Schultens, “goes on to show how disagreeable to his stomach the speech of Eliphaz had been.” This learned critic acc...
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...
Heb. As the sicknesses or sorrows of my meat , i.e. as my sorrowful meat, which I am constrained to eat with grief of heart. The particle as , either, 1. Notes not the similitude, but the truth 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 Defends his Desire for Death
1 Kings 17:12 ; 1 Kings 22:27 ; Daniel 10:3 ; Ezekiel 12:18 ; Ezekiel 12:19 ; Ezekiel 4:14 ; Ezekiel 4:16 ; Psalms 102:9
The things, &c. — The sense may be, those grievous afflictions, which I dreaded the very thought of, are now my daily, though sorrowful bread.