Job 6:1
in Job 6Then Job replied:
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Then Job answered and said,
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But Job answered and said,
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This verse in Job 6
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Then Job replied
on Job 6:1-3
Job answers Eliphaz by asking that "my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales". He wants his suffering measured. He says "it would outweigh the sand of the seas," stating his case in words of weight and quantity that recur through the chapter.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
This is what Job means, you show wisdom in the misfortunes of other people. Since you are far away from my misfortunes, you admonish me while you experience a peaceful life. This remark is an answer to the words that were said earlier, "You have instructed many." "You have strengthened the feeble knees." "But now misfortune has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed." Why does he say, "You are dismayed"? I wanted my affliction to become evident, so you would understand that nobody has ever suffered such tribulations. But I perceive my bad luck. He who should have provided me with forgiveness makes me absolutely unforgivable. My misfortune's magnitude, he says, not only doesn't intercede for me, not only makes me seem unworthy of mercy, but condemns me. What should have obtained mercy for me instead makes me hateful and condemnable, and I cannot gain any mercy, in spite of what I say. And the proof is that Eliphaz imputed Job's misfortune to impiety.
The Medieval Church1 voice
Eliphaz had clearly noted in earlier verses three things in the lament of Job: despair because he seemed to desire not to exist; impatience or immoderate sorrow because of the sighs and moans which he said he was enduring; and presumption because he asserted his …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
But Job answered and said.
The words behind it
3 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּ֥עַן | vaiyaan | and he answered | H6030 → | 331 times |
| אִיּ֗וֹב | ʾiyov | Job | H347 → | 58 times |
| וַיֹּאמַֽר׃ | vaiyomar | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
וַיַּ֥עַןand he answered
vaiyaanH6030 →331 times
אִיּ֗וֹבJob
ʾiyovH347 →58 times
וַיֹּאמַֽר׃and he said
vaiyomarH559 →5305 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Job 4:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
it leads to
- Job 15:1
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
- Job 3:1–2
After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
- Job 22:1
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
- Job 42:9
So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s request.
- Job 2:11
Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together…
- Job 15:1
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Job; John Chrysostom, COMMENTARY ON JOB 6:2A-3A; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.
