Job 6:19 ESV

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 6:19

troops = caravans. companies = travellers. read more

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 6:15-20

Job 6:15-20. My brethren have dealt deceitfully— Bishop Lowth observes, that though the metaphor from overflowing waters is very frequent in other sacred writers, yet the author of the book of Job never touches upon it but once or twice throughout the whole poem, and that very slightly, though the subject afforded him frequent opportunities to do so. Indeed, says he, a different face of nature presented itself to him, whoever he was, if, according to the opinion of several learned men, the book... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 6:19

Job 6:19. The troops of Tema looked— Mr. Heath so translates this verse, as to introduce the speaker using an animated prosopopoeia, or addressing himself to the travellers: Look for them ye troops of Tema, ye travellers of Sheba, expect them earnestly. This gives great life to the poetry, and sets a very beautiful image before the eye: the travellers wasting their time, depending on those torrents for water; but when they come thither, how great the disappointment! They are dried up; Job 6:20.... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 6:19

19. the troops—that is, "caravans." Tema—north of Arabia-Deserta, near the Syrian desert; called from Tema son of Ishmael (Genesis 25:15; Isaiah 21:14; Jeremiah 25:23), still so called by the Arabs. Job 6:19; Job 6:20 give another picture of the mortification of disappointed hopes, namely, those of the caravans on the direct road, anxiously awaiting the return of their companions from the distant valley. The mention of the locality whence the caravans came gives living reality to the picture.... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 6:1-21

2. Job’s first reply to Eliphaz chs. 6-7Job began not with a direct reply to Eliphaz but with another complaint about his condition. Then he responded to Eliphaz’s speech but addressed all three of his friends. The "you" and "yours" in Job 6:24-30 are plural in the Hebrew text. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 6:14-23

Job’s disappointment with his friends 6:14-23"If, up to this point, Job has been praying, or at least soliloquizing, now he makes a more direct attack on the friends (the ’you’ in Job 6:21 is plural)." [Note: Ibid., p. 130.] "Eliphaz has attacked Job’s complaint; Job now attacks Eliphaz’ ’consolation.’" [Note: Kline, p. 468.] Job’s friends had not been loyal to him when they judged him as they had. "Kindness" in Job 6:14 is literally "loyalty." Consequently, Job was close to forsaking his fear... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 6:1-30

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 of God’s hand, and wishes that He would slay him outright.2, 3. Job admits that he was rash in his remarks (in Job 3), but declares that his language was justified by his miserable condition.3. Are swallowed up] RV ’have been rash.’4. It is because he feels that his troubles are due to God that he is... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 6:19

(19) The troops of Tema.—Fürst says of Tema that it was a tract in the north of the Arabian Desert, on the borders of the Syrian one, where traffic was carried on from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean by caravans (Isaiah 21:14; Jeremiah 25:23; Job 6:19). Sheba, as understood here, was probably a district on the Arabian Gulf (see Job 1:15), where merchants trafficked with the distant cities of the East, as well as enriched themselves with the plunder of their neighbours, as in Job 1:15. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 6:1-30

Job 6:1 f The sixth and seventh chapters are molten from end to end, and run in one burning stream.... Everything which can be said by a sick man against life is in these chapters. The whole of a vast subsequent literature is summed up here, and he who has once read it may fairly ask never to be troubled with anything more upon that side. Mark Rutherford, The Deliverance, p. 13 f. 'When He does smite,' wrote General Gordon to his sister from the Red Sea in 1879, 'His arrows are almost too... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 6:1-30

VIII.MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARINGJob 6:1-30; Job 7:1-21Job SPEAKSWORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man’s own heart because no channel outside self is provided for the hot stream of thought. Now that Eliphaz has spoken, Job has something to arouse him, at least to resentment. The strength of his mind revives as he finds himself called to a battle of words. And how energetic he is! The long address of Eliphaz we saw to be incoherent, without the backbone of any clear... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 6:19

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 6:15-20

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 6:19

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 6:19

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 6:1-21

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 6:14-23

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 6:1-30

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 6:19

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 6:1-30

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 6:1-30

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