Job 6:30

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 6:30

Consider again, and more thoroughly examine, if there be any untruth or iniquity in what I have already said, or shall further speak to you. My taste. i.e. my judgment, which discerns and judgeth of words and actions as the taste or palate doth of meats. Perverse things, i.e. false opinions or sinful expressions. I am not so bereft of common understanding, as not to be able to distinguish between good and evil; and therefore if I have uttered, or should utter, any perverse words, I should... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 6:1-30

JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZI. Justifies his complaint (Job 6:2).“O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case neither apprehended nor appreciated by his friends. Desires fervently that his suffering and his complaining were weighed against each other; or that his calamity and the grief occasioned by it were thoroughly considered. The weight of it beyond that of the “sand” of the sea,—too numerous to be counted and too heavy to be weighed. The greatness of it beyond his ability to... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 6:1-30

Chapter 6So Job responds to him and he says, Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamities laid in the balances together! ( Job 6:1-2 )Now, of course, picturesque, you got to see it. In those days, the balances, the scales were always balances and they had the little weights that they would put on the one side and then, you know, the grapes or whatever you were buying were put on the other side. And when the balance came to be equal, then you had the talent, the weight of the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:1-30

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 men in the back with a poisoned arrow. He languished about two and forty hours in extreme pain. A hottentot said next day, he will die tomorrow about sunrise, which happened according to his calculation of the time in which others had died of those wounds. Job 6:5 . Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? This animal, often named in the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 6:1-30

Job 6:1-30But Job answered and said. Job’s answer to EliphazWe must come upon grief in one of two ways and Job seems to have come upon grief in a way that is to be deprecated. He came upon it late in life. He was in solid prosperity and positive and genuine comfort. Grief must tell heavily whenever it comes upon a man in such a condition. This accounts for his lamentation, and whine, and long-drawn threnody. He was not accustomed to it. Some have been born into trouble, and they have become... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 6:14-30

Job 6:14-30To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend.A message to doubtersSuch is the rendering of the Authorised Version; but, unfortunately, it is a rendering which misses almost entirely the thought of the sacred writer. As a glance at the context will show, the words form a part of Job’s complaint against his friends. In the darkest hour of his need, when he was despairing, and ready to faint, when, as he says, he was “forsaking” or “losing his hold of the fear of the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 6:30

Job 6:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? Ver. 30. Is there iniquity in my tongue? ] Yea, or else you shall pass for a perfect man, and well able to bridle the whole body, James 3:2 . St Paul, Romans 3:13 , anatomizing a natural man, standeth more upon the organs of speech, his tongue, lips, mouth, throat, &c., than upon all the other members. But Job was a perfect and an upright man, Job 1:1 , he had said he would take heed to his ways, that he... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 6:30

iniquity: Job 33:8-2 Kings :, Job 42:3-Joshua : cannot: Job 6:6, Job 12:11, Job 34:3, Hebrews 5:14 taste: Heb. palate Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 14:17 - to discern 2 Samuel 19:35 - can I discern Job 11:4 - I am clean read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 6:30

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?Is there — Consider if there be any untruth or iniquity in what I have already said, or shall farther speak.Taste — My judgment, which judgeth of words and actions, as the palate doth of meats. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 6:30

30. Iniquity Is there wrong in my tongue? Taste Cannot my palate discern that which is perverse? Of all human beings he himself knows best about his own heart and life, as one’s own palate is best fitted to discern its own objects of taste. The word palate is here used metaphorically for the moral judgment. It is this that tries “perverse things,” הוות not “calamities,” as Zockler would read, but a “wickedness which completely contaminates feeling and utterance.” See Psalms 52:2,... read more

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