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Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Job 6:1-30

CHAPTERS 6-7 Job’s Answer 1. His Despair justified by the greatness of his suffering (Job 6:1-7 ) 2. He requests to be cut off (Job 6:8-13 ) 3. He reproacheth his friends (Job 6:14-30 ) 4. The misery of life (Job 7:1-7 ) 5. Two questions: Why does God deal with me thus? Why does He not pardon? (Job 7:8-21 ) Job 6:1-7 . He meets first of all the reproach and accusation of Eliphaz (Job 4:1-5 ). Because his sufferings are so great his utterances are so desperately wild. If Eliphaz only... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 6:2

6:2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the {a} balances together!(a To know whether I complain without just cause. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 6:3

6:3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are {b} swallowed up.(b) My grief is so great that I lack words to express it. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 6:4

6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do {c} set themselves in array against me.(c) Which declares that he was not only afflicted in body, but wounded in conscience, which is the greatest battle that the faithful can have. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 6:5

6:5 Doth the {d} wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?(d) Do you think that I cry without cause, seeing the brute beasts do not complain when they have what they want. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 6:6

6:6 Can that which is {e} unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?(e) Can a man’s taste delight in that, which has no savour? meaning that no one takes pleasure in affliction seeing they cannot do away with things that are unsavoury to the mouth. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 6:8

6:8 Oh that I might have my {f} request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!(f) In this he sins double, both in wishing through impatience to die, and also in desiring of God a thing which was not agreeable to his will. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 6:10

6:10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; {g} for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.(g) That is, let me die at once before I come to distrust God’s promise through my impatience. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 6:11

6:11 What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine {h} end, that I should prolong my life?(h) He fears lest he should be brought to inconveniences, if his sorrows should continue. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 6:13

6:13 [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? read more

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