Job 6:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Or, Deliver me out of the enemy’s hand? - At no time have I called on you to rescue me from a foe.

Or, Redeem me? - That is, rescue me from the hand of robbers. The meaning is, that he was in no way beholden to them; he had never called on them for assistance; and there was therefore no claim which they could now have to afflict him further by their reflections. There seems to be something peevish in these remarks; and we need not attempt to justify the spirit which dictated them.

Job 6:23

23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?