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Job 6:1 through Job 6:13 (NIV)
1Then Job replied:
2 “If only my anguish could be weighed
and all my misery be placed on the scales!
3 It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas—
no wonder my words have been impetuous.
4 The arrows of the Almighty are in me,
my spirit drinks in their poison;
God’s terrors are marshaled against me.
5 Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass,
or an ox bellow when it has fodder?
6 Is tasteless food eaten without salt,
or is there flavor in the white of an egg?
7 I refuse to touch it;
such food makes me ill.
8 “Oh, that I might have my request,
that God would grant what I hope for,
9 that God would be willing to crush me,
to let loose his hand and cut me off!
10 Then I would still have this consolation—
my joy in unrelenting pain—
that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.
11 “What strength do I have, that I should still hope?
What prospects, that I should be patient?
12 Do I have the strength of stone?
Is my flesh bronze?
13 Do I have any power to help myself,
now that success has been driven from me?
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 1-7
Job still justifies himself in his complaints. In addition to outward troubles,
the inward sense of God’s wrath took away all his courage and resolution. The
feeling sense of the wrath of God is harder to bear than any outward
afflictions. What then did the Saviour endure in the garden and on the cross,
when he bare our sins, and his soul was made a sacrifice to Divine justice for
us! Whatever burden of affliction, in body or estate, God is pleased to lay upon
us, we may well submit to it as long as he continues to us the use of our
reason, and the peace of our conscience; but if either of these is disturbed,
our case is very pitiable. Job reflects upon his friends for their censures. He
complains he had nothing offered for his relief, but what was in itself
tasteless, loathsome, and burdensome.
VERSES 8-13
Job had desired death as the happy end of his miseries. For this, Eliphaz had
reproved him, but he asks for it again with more vehemence than before. It was
very rash to speak thus of God destroying him. Who, for one hour, could endure
the wrath of the Almighty, if he let loose his hand against him? Let us rather
say with David, O spare me a little. Job grounds his comfort upon the testimony
of his conscience, that he had been, in some degree, serviceable to the glory of
God. Those who have grace in them, who have the evidence of it, and have it in
exercise, have wisdom in them, which will be their help in the worst of times.
See Healing