2 Corinthians 1:12; Galatians 6:4; Job 12:2; Job 12:3; Job 13:2; Job 19:28
Is not my help in me? - This would be better rendered in an affirmative manner, or as an exclamation. The interrogative form of the previous vers...
[Is] not my (i) help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? (i) Have I not sought to help myself as much as was possible?
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 impatien...
wisdom . stability. See note on Proverbs 2:7 .
Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? Is not my help in me? - My help is all in myself; and, alas! that is perfect weakness: an...
Is not my help in me? &c.— Or, because my help is not at hand, is wisdom therefore departed far from me? Houbigant. Heath renders it, Do not...
Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? Is not my help in me? The interrogation is better omitted. 'There is no help in me!...
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 j...
RV 'Is it not that I have no help in me, and sound wisdom is driven quite from me?' He is exhausted and without resource. 14-30. Job complains o...
Is not my help in me? — It is in passages such as these that the actual meaning of Job is so obscure and his words so difficult. The sense may be,...
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 hea...
“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 ra...
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 d...
(11) What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? (12) Is my strength the strength of stones? or is...
[Is] my help in me ?.... Or "my defence" y, as some; is it not in my power to defend myself against the calumnies and reproaches cast upon me? it is...
Job 6:13 [Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? Ver. 13. Is not my help in me? ] Have I not something within wherewith to s...
Is not my help in me? Though I have no strength in my body, or outward man, yet I have some help and support within me, or in my inward man, even a...
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 s...
8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me;...
Though I have no strength in my body, or outward man, yet I have some help and support within me, or in my inward man, even the conscience of my own...
JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Justifies his complaint ( Job 6:2 ). “O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case neither apprehende...
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...
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 th...
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...
Job Defends his Desire for Death
Is not my help in me, rather, "Is not the nothingness of my help with me," that is, Am I not utterly helpless? And is wisdom driven quite from me?...
What, &c. — If my outward condition be helpless and hopeless? Have I therefore lost my understanding, cannot I judge whether it is more desirab...
13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?