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Job is the most penetrating treatment of suffering, divine justice, and epistemological humility in the Hebrew Bible. Its probable date is pre-Mosaic (patriarchal setting), making it one of the oldest compositions in Scripture.
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- Primary Witness Text: But Job answered and said, Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg? The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat. Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass? Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. The pat...
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Job is the most penetrating treatment of suffering, divine justice, and epistemological humility in the Hebrew Bible. Its probable date is pre-Mosaic (patriarchal setting), making it one of the oldest compositions in Scripture.
Job's friends represent the dominant ancient Near Eastern theodicy: suffering = sin. God's answer from the whirlwind (chs. 38-41) does not explain the suffering but confronts Job with the staggering scale and wisdom of the creation — demanding the creature's epistemological humility before the Creator. Job 19:25-27 ("I know that my Redeemer lives") stands as the OT's most personal resurrection confession.
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Job 6:1
Hebrew
וַיַּעַן אִיּוֹב וַיֹּאמַֽר׃vaya'an-'iyvov-vayo'mar
KJV: But Job answered and said,
AKJV: But Job answered and said,
ASV: Then Job answered and said,
YLT: And Job answereth and saith: --
Exposition: Job 6:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'But Job answered and said,'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:2
Hebrew
לוּ שָׁקוֹל יִשָּׁקֵל כַּעְשִׂי והיתי וְהַוָּתִי בְּֽמֹאזְנַיִם יִשְׂאוּ־יָֽחַד׃lv-shaqvol-yishaqel-kha'eshiy-vhyty-vehavatiy-vemo'zenayim-yishe'v-yachad
KJV: Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
AKJV: Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
ASV: Oh that my vexation were but weighed,
YLT: O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!
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Job 6:2
Verse 2 O that my grief were thoroughly weighed - Job wished to be dealt with according to justice; as he was willing that his sins, if they could be proved, should be weighed against his sufferings; and if this could not be done, he wished that his sufferings and his complainings might be weighed together; and it would then be seen that, bitter as his complaint had been, it was little when compared with the distress which occasioned it.
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Job 6:2
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Exposition: Job 6:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:3
Hebrew
כִּֽי־עַתָּה מֵחוֹל יַמִּים יִכְבָּד עַל־כֵּן דְּבָרַי לָֽעוּ׃khiy-'atah-mechvol-yamiym-yikhevad-'al-khen-devaray-la'v
KJV: For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
AKJV: For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
ASV: For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas:
YLT: For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.
Commentary WitnessJob 6:3Quoted commentary witness
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Job 6:3
Verse 3 Heavier than the sand of the sea - This includes two ideas: their number was too great to be counted; their weight was too great to be estimated.
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Job 6:3
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Exposition: Job 6:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:4
Hebrew
כִּי חִצֵּי שַׁדַּי עִמָּדִי אֲשֶׁר חֲמָתָם שֹׁתָה רוּחִי בִּעוּתֵי אֱלוֹהַּ יַֽעַרְכֽוּנִי׃khiy-chitzey-shaday-'imadiy-'asher-chamatam-shotah-rvchiy-vi'vtey-'elvoha-ya'arekhvniy
KJV: For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
AKJV: For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
ASV: For the arrows of the Almighty are within me,
YLT: For arrows of the Mighty are with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves for me!
Commentary WitnessJob 6:4Quoted commentary witness
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Job 6:4
Verse 4 The arrows of the Almighty - There is an evident reference here to wounds inflicted by poisoned arrows; and to the burning fever occasioned by such wounds, producing such an intense parching thirst as to dry up all the moisture in the system, stop all the salivary ducts, thicken and inflame the blood, induce putrescency, and terminate in raging mania, producing the most terrifying images, from which the patient is relieved only by death. This is strongly expressed in the fine figure: The Poison Drinketh Up my Spirit; the Terrors of God Set Themselves in Array against me. That calamities are represented among the Eastern writers as the arrows of the Almighty, we have abundant proofs. In reference to this, I shall adduce that fine saying attributed to Aaly, the son-in-law of Mohammed in the Toozuki Teemour; which I have spoken of elsewhere. "It was once demanded of the fourth califf (Aaly), 'If the canopy of heaven were a bow; and if the earth were the cord thereof; and if calamities were the arrows; if mankind were the mark for those arrows; and if Almighty God, the tremendous and glorious, were the unerring Archer; to whom could the sons of Adam flee for protection?' The califf answered, 'The sons of Adam must flee unto the Lord.'" This fine image Job keeps in view in the eighth and ninth verses, wishing that the unerring marksman may let fly these arrows, let loose his hand, to destroy and cut him off.
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Job 6:4
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- Ray
- Almighty
- Aaly
- Toozuki Teemour
- Almighty God
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- Lord
Exposition: Job 6:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:5
Hebrew
הֲיִֽנְהַק־פֶּרֶא עֲלֵי־דֶשֶׁא אִם יִגְעֶה־שּׁוֹר עַל־בְּלִילֽוֹ׃hayinehaq-fere'-'aley-deshe'-'im-yige'eh-shvor-'al-veliylvo
KJV: Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
AKJV: Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? or lows the ox over his fodder?
ASV: Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass?
YLT: Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?
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Job 6:5
Verse 5 Doth the wild ass - פרא pere, translated onager, by the Vulgate, from the ονος αγριος of the Septuagint, which we properly enough, translate wild ass. It is the same with the tame ass; only in a wild state it grows to a larger size, is stronger, and more fleet. The meaning of Job appears to be this: You condemn me for complaining; do I complain without a cause? The wild ass will not bray, and the ox will not low, unless in want. If they have plenty of provender, they are silent. Were I at rest, at ease, and happy, I would not complain.
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Job 6:5
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- Septuagint
- Vulgate
- Ray
Exposition: Job 6:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:6
Hebrew
הֲיֵאָכֵל תָּפֵל מִבְּלִי־מֶלַח אִם־יֶשׁ־טַעַם בְּרִיר חַלָּמֽוּת׃haye'akhel-tafel-miveliy-melach-'im-yesh-ta'am-veriyr-chalamvt
KJV: Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
AKJV: Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
ASV: Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt?
YLT: Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?
Commentary WitnessJob 6:6Quoted commentary witness
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Job 6:6
Verse 6 Can that which is unsavoury - Mr. Good renders this verse as follows: Doth insipid food without a mixture of salt, yea, doth the white of the egg give forth pungency? Which he thus illustrates: "Doth that which hath nothing of seasoning, nothing of a pungent or irritable power within it, produce pungency or irritation? I too should be quiet and complain not, if I had nothing provocative or acrimonious, but, alas! the food I am doomed to partake of is the very calamity which is most acute to my soul - that which I most loathe, and which is most grievous or trying to my palate." Some render the original, Is there any dependence on the drivel of dreams? There have been a great variety of interpretations given of this verse. I could add another; but that of Mr. Good is as likely to be correct as that of any other critic.
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Job 6:6
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- Mr
Exposition: Job 6:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:7
Hebrew
מֵאֲנָה לִנְגּוֹעַ נַפְשִׁי הֵמָּה כִּדְוֵי לַחְמִֽי׃me'anah-linegvo'a-nafeshiy-hemah-khidevey-lachemiy
KJV: The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
AKJV: The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
ASV: My soul refuseth to touch them;
YLT: My soul is refusing to touch! They are as my sickening food.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 6:7Generated editorial synthesis
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Job 6:7
Job 6:7 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Job 6:7
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- Job 6:7
Exposition: Job 6:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:8
Hebrew
מִֽי־יִתֵּן תָּבוֹא שֶֽׁאֱלָתִי וְתִקְוָתִי יִתֵּן אֱלֽוֹהַּ׃miy-yiten-tavvo'-she'elatiy-vetiqevatiy-yiten-'elvoha
KJV: Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
AKJV: Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
ASV: Oh that I might have my request;
YLT: O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!
Commentary WitnessJob 6:8Quoted commentary witness
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Job 6:8
Verse 8 O that I might have - As Job had no hope that he should ever be redeemed from his present helpless state, he earnestly begs God to shorten it by taking away his life.
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Job 6:8
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Exposition: Job 6:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:9
Hebrew
וְיֹאֵל אֱלוֹהַּ וִֽידַכְּאֵנִי יַתֵּר יָדוֹ וִֽיבַצְּעֵֽנִי׃veyo'el-'elvoha-viydakhe'eniy-yater-yadvo-viyvatze'eniy
KJV: Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
AKJV: Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
ASV: Even that it would please God to crush me;
YLT: That God would please--and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
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Job 6:9
Verse 9 Let loose his hand - A metaphor taken from an archer drawing his arrow to the head, and then loosing his hold, that the arrow may fly to the mark. See on Job 6:4 (note).
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- Job 6:4
Exposition: Job 6:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:10
Hebrew
וּתְהִי עוֹד ׀ נֶחָמָתִי וַאֲסַלְּדָה בְחִילָה לֹא יַחְמוֹל כִּי־לֹא כִחַדְתִּי אִמְרֵי קָדֽוֹשׁ׃vtehiy-'vod- -nechamatiy-va'asaledah-vechiylah-lo'-yachemvol-khiy-lo'-khichadetiy-'imerey-qadvosh
KJV: Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
AKJV: Then should I yet have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
ASV: And be it still my consolation,
YLT: And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain--He doth not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.
Commentary WitnessJob 6:10Quoted commentary witness
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Job 6:10
Verse 10 Then should I yet have comfort - Instead of עוד od, Yet, three of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS. have זאת zoth, This. And This should be my comfort. The expectation that he will speedily make an end of me would cause me to rejoice with great joy. This reading is supported by the Vulgate and the Chaldee. I would harden myself in sorrow - To know that I should shortly have an end put to my miseries would cause me to endure the present with determinate resolution. Let him not spare - let him use whatever means he chooses, for I will not resist his decree; he is holy, and his decrees must be just.
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Job 6:10
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- Vulgate
- Yet
- This
- Chaldee
Exposition: Job 6:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:11
Hebrew
מַה־כֹּחִי כִֽי־אֲיַחֵל וּמַה־קִּצִּי כִּֽי־אַאֲרִיךְ נַפְשִֽׁי׃mah-khochiy-khiy-'ayachel-vmah-qitziy-khiy-'a'ariykhe-nafeshiy
KJV: What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
AKJV: What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
ASV: What is my strength, that I should wait?
YLT: What is my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?
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Job 6:11
Verse 11 What is my strength - I can never suppose that my strength will be restored; and, were that possible, have I any comfortable prospect of a happy termination of my life? Had I any prospect of future happiness, I might well bear my present ills; but the state of my body and the state of my circumstances preclude all hope.
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Exposition: Job 6:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:12
Hebrew
אִם־כֹּחַ אֲבָנִים כֹּחִי אִֽם־בְּשָׂרִי נָחֽוּשׁ׃'im-khocha-'avaniym-khochiy-'im-veshariy-nachvsh
KJV: Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
AKJV: Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
ASV: Is my strength the strength of stones?
YLT: Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh brazen?
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Verse 12 Is my strength the strength of stones? - I am neither a rock, nor is my flesh brass, that I can endure all these calamities. This is a proverbial saying, and exists in all countries. Cicero says, Non enim est e saxo sculptus, aut e Robore dolatus Homo; habet corpus, habet animum; movetur mente, movetur sensibus. "For man is not chiselled out of the rock, nor hewn out of the oak; he has a body, and he has a soul; the one is actuated by intellect, the other by the senses." Quaest. Acad. iv. 31. So Homer, where he represents Apollo urging the Trojans to attack the Greeks: - Νεμεσησε δ' Απολλων, Περγαμου εκκατιδων· Τρωεσσι δε κεκλετ' αυσας· Ορνυσθ', ἱπποδαμοι Τρωες, μηδ' εικετε χαρμης Αργειοις· επει ου σφιλιθος χρως, ουδε σιδηρος, Χαλκον ανασχεσθαι ταμεσιχροα βαλλομενοισιν. Illiad, lib. iv., ver. 507. But Phoebus now from Ilion's towering height Shines forth reveal'd, and animates the fight. Trojans, be bold, and force to force oppose; Your foaming steeds urge headlong on the foes! Nor are their bodies rocks, nor ribb'd with steel; Your weapons enter, and your strokes they feel. Pope. These are almost the same expressions as those in Job.
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Exposition: Job 6:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:13
Hebrew
הַאִם אֵין עֶזְרָתִי בִי וְתֻשִׁיָּה נִדְּחָה מִמֶּֽנִּי׃ha'im-'eyn-'ezeratiy-viy-vetushiyah-nidechah-mimeniy
KJV: Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
AKJV: Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
ASV: Is it not that I have no help in me,
YLT: Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?
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Verse 13 Is not my help in me? - My help is all in myself; and, alas! that is perfect weakness: and my subsistence, תושיה tushiyah, all that is real, stable, and permanent, is driven quite from me. My friends have forsaken me, and I am abandoned to myself; my property is all taken away, and I have no resources left. I believe Job neither said, nor intended to say, as some interpreters have it, Reason is utterly driven from me. Surely there is no mark in this chapter of his being deranged, or at all impaired in his intellect.
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Exposition: Job 6:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:14
Hebrew
לַמָּס מֵרֵעֵהוּ חָסֶד וְיִרְאַת שַׁדַּי יַעֲזֽוֹב׃lamas-mere'ehv-chased-veyire'at-shaday-ya'azvov
KJV: To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
AKJV: To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
ASV: To him that is ready to faint kindness should be showed from his friend;
YLT: To a despiser of his friends is shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.
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Verse 14 To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty - The Vulgate gives a better sense, Qui tollit ab amico suo misericordiam, timorem Domini dereliquit, "He who takes away mercy from his friend, hath cast off the fear of the Lord." The word למס lammas, which we render to him who is Afflicted, from מסה masah, to dissolve, or waste away, is in thirty-two of Dr. Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS. למאס lemoes, "to him that despiseth his friend;" and hence the passage may be read: To him who despiseth his friend, it is a reproach; and he will forsake the fear of the Almighty: or, as Mr. Good translates, "Shame to the man who despiseth his friend! He indeed hath departed from the fear of the Almighty." Eliphaz had, in effect, despised Job; and on this ground had acted any thing but the part of a friend towards him; and he well deserved the severe stroke which he here receives. A heathen said, Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur; the full sense of which we have in our common adage: - A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed. Job's friends, so called, supported each other in their attempts to blacken the character of this worthy man; and their hand became the heavier, because they supposed the hand of God was upon him. To each of them, individually, might be applied the words of another heathen: - - Absentem qui rodit amicum, Qui non defendit alio culpante; solutos Qui captat risus hominum, famamque dicacis, Fingere qui non visa potest; commissa tacere Qui nequit; hic niger est; hunc tu, Romane, caveto. Hor. Satyr. lib. i., s. iv., ver. 81. He who, malignant, tears an absent friend; Or, when attack'd by others, don't defend; Who trivial bursts of laughter strives to raise, And courts, of prating petulance, the praise; Of things he never saw who tells his tale, And friendship's secrets knows not to conceal; - This man is vile; here, Roman, fix your mark; His soul's as black as his complexion's dark. Francis.
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Exposition: Job 6:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:15
Hebrew
אַחַי בָּגְדוּ כְמוֹ־נָחַל כַּאֲפִיק נְחָלִים יַעֲבֹֽרוּ׃'achay-vagedv-khemvo-nachal-kha'afiyq-nechaliym-ya'avorv
KJV: My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
AKJV: My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
ASV: My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook,
YLT: My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.
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Verse 15 Have dealt deceitfully as a brook - There is probably an allusion here to those land torrents which make a sudden appearance, and as suddenly vanish; being produced by the rains that fall upon the mountains during the rainy season, and are soon absorbed by the thirsty sands over which they run. At first they seem to promise a permanent stream, and are noticed with delight by the people, who fill their tanks or reservoirs from their waters; but sometimes they are so large and rapid as to carry every thing before them: and then suddenly fail, so that there is no time to fill the tanks. The approach of Job's friends promised much of sympathy and compassion; his expectations were raised: but their conduct soon convinced him that they were physicians of no value; therefore he compares them to the deceitful torrents that soon pass away.
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Exposition: Job 6:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:16
Hebrew
הַקֹּדְרִים מִנִּי־קָרַח עָלֵימוֹ יִתְעַלֶּם־שָֽׁלֶג׃haqoderiym-miniy-qarach-'aleymvo-yite'alem-shaleg
KJV: Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
AKJV: Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
ASV: Which are black by reason of the ice,
YLT: That are black because of ice, By them doth snow hide itself.
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Verse 16 Blackish by reason of the ice - He represents the waters as being sometimes suddenly frozen, their foam being turned into the semblance of snow or hoar-frost: when the heat comes, they are speedily liquefied; and the evaporation is so strong from the heat, and the absorption so powerful from the sand, that they soon disappear.
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Exposition: Job 6:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:17
Hebrew
בְּעֵת יְזֹרְבוּ נִצְמָתוּ בְּחֻמּוֹ נִדְעֲכוּ מִמְּקוֹמָֽם׃ve'et-yezorevv-nitzematv-vechumvo-nide'akhv-mimeqvomam
KJV: What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
AKJV: What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
ASV: What time they wax warm, they vanish;
YLT: By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.
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Job 6:17 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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- Job 6:17
Exposition: Job 6:17 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:18
Hebrew
יִלָּפְתוּ אָרְחוֹת דַּרְכָּם יַעֲלוּ בַתֹּהוּ וְיֹאבֵֽדוּ׃yilafetv-'arechvot-darekham-ya'alv-vatohv-veyo'vedv
KJV: The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
AKJV: The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
ASV: The caravansthat travelby the way of them turn aside;
YLT: Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.
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Verse 18 The paths of their way - They sometimes forsake their ancient channels, which is a frequent case with the river Ganges; and growing smaller and smaller from being divided into numerous streams, they go to nothing and perish - are at last utterly lost in the sands.
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Exposition: Job 6:18 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:19
Hebrew
הִבִּיטוּ אָרְחוֹת תֵּמָא הֲלִיכֹת שְׁבָא קִוּוּ־לָֽמוֹ׃hiviytv-'arechvot-tema'-haliykhot-sheva'-qivv-lamvo
KJV: The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
AKJV: The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
ASV: The caravans of Tema looked,
YLT: Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them.
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Verse 19 The troops of Tema looked - The caravans coming from Tema are represented as arriving at those places where it was well known torrents did descend from the mountains, and they were full of expectation that here they could not only slake their thirst, but fill their girbas or water-skins; but when they arrive, they find the waters totally dissipated and lost. In vain did the caravans of Sheba wait for them; they did not reappear: and they were confounded, because they had hoped to find here refreshment and rest.
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Exposition: Job 6:19 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:20
Hebrew
בֹּשׁוּ כִּֽי־בָטָח בָּאוּ עָדֶיהָ וַיֶּחְפָּֽרוּ׃voshv-khiy-vatach-va'v-'adeyha-vayechefarv
KJV: They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
AKJV: They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
ASV: They were put to shame because they had hoped;
YLT: They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded.
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Job 6:20
Job 6:20 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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- Job 6:20
Exposition: Job 6:20 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:21
Hebrew
כִּֽי־עַתָּה הֱיִיתֶם לא לוֹ תִּֽרְאוּ חֲתַת וַתִּירָֽאוּ׃khiy-'atah-heyiytem-l'-lvo-tire'v-chatat-vatiyra'v
KJV: For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
AKJV: For now you are nothing; you see my casting down, and are afraid.
ASV: For now ye are nothing;
YLT: Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.
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Verse 21 For now ye are nothing - Ye are just to me as those deceitful torrents to the caravans of Tema and Sheba; they were nothing to them; ye are nothing to me. Ye see my casting down - Ye see that I have been hurried from my eminence into want and misery, as the flood from the top of the mountains, which is divided, evaporated, and lost in the desert. And are afraid - Ye are terrified at the calamity that has come upon me; and instead of drawing near to comfort me, ye start back at my appearance.
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- Sheba
Exposition: Job 6:21 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:22
Hebrew
הֲֽכִי־אָמַרְתִּי הָבוּ לִי וּמִכֹּחֲכֶם שִׁחֲדוּ בַעֲדִֽי׃hakhiy-'amaretiy-havv-liy-vmikhochakhem-shichadv-va'adiy
KJV: Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
AKJV: Did I say, Bring to me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
ASV: Did I say, Give unto me?
YLT: Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?
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Verse 22 Did I say, Bring unto me? - Why do you stand aloof? Have I asked you to bring me any presents? or to supply my wants out of your stores?
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Exposition: Job 6:22 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:23
Hebrew
וּמַלְּטוּנִי מִיַּד־צָר וּמִיַּד עָרִיצִים תִּפְדּֽוּנִי׃vmaletvniy-miyad-tzar-vmiyad-'ariytziym-tifedvniy
KJV: Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
AKJV: Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
ASV: Or, Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?
YLT: And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From the hand of terrible ones ransom me?
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Verse 23 Or, Deliver me - Did I send to you to come and avenge me of the destroyers of my property, or to rescue my substance out of the hands of my enemies?
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- Or
Exposition: Job 6:23 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:24
Hebrew
הוֹרוּנִי וַאֲנִי אַחֲרִישׁ וּמַה־שָּׁגִיתִי הָבִינוּ לִֽי׃hvorvniy-va'aniy-'achariysh-vmah-shagiytiy-haviynv-liy
KJV: Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
AKJV: Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
ASV: Teach me, and I will hold my peace;
YLT: Shew me, and I--I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.
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Verse 24 Teach me - Show me where I am mistaken. Bring proper arguments to convince me of my errors; and you will soon find that I shall gladly receive your counsels, and abandon the errors of which I may be convicted.
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Exposition: Job 6:24 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:25
Hebrew
מַה־נִּמְרְצוּ אִמְרֵי־יֹשֶׁר וּמַה־יּוֹכִיחַ הוֹכֵחַ מִכֶּֽם׃mah-nimeretzv-'imerey-yosher-vmah-yvokhiycha-hvokhecha-mikhem
KJV: How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
AKJV: How forcible are right words! but what does your arguing reprove?
ASV: How forcible are words of uprightness!
YLT: How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?
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Job 6:25
Verse 25 How forcible are right words - A well-constructed argument, that has truth for its basis, is irresistible. But what doth your arguing reprove? - Your reasoning is defective, because your premises are false; and your conclusions prove nothing, because of the falsity of the premises whence they are drawn. The last clause, literally rendered, is, What reproof, in a reproof from you? As you have proved no fault you have consequently reproved no vice. Instead of מה נמרצו mah nimretsu, "how forcible," מה נמלצו mah nimletsu, "how savoury or pleasant," is the reading of two MSS., the Chaldee, and some of the rabbins. Both senses are good, but the common reading is to be preferred.
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Job 6:25
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Chaldee
Exposition: Job 6:25 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:26
Hebrew
הַלְהוֹכַח מִלִּים תַּחְשֹׁבוּ וּלְרוּחַ אִמְרֵי נֹאָֽשׁ׃halehvokhach-miliym-tacheshovv-vlervcha-'imerey-no'ash
KJV: Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
AKJV: Do you imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
ASV: Do ye think to reprove words,
YLT: For reproof--do you reckon words? And for wind--sayings of the desperate.
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Job 6:26
Verse 26 Do ye imagine to reprove words - Is it some expressions which in my hurry, and under the pressure of unprecedented affliction, I have uttered, that ye catch at? You can find no flaw in my conduct; would ye make me an Offender for a Word? Why endeavor to take such advantage of a man who complains in the bitterness of his heart, through despair of life and happiness?
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Exposition: Job 6:26 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:27
Hebrew
אַף־עַל־יָתוֹם תַּפִּילוּ וְתִכְרוּ עַל־רֵֽיעֲכֶֽם׃'af-'al-yatvom-tafiylv-vetikherv-'al-rey'akhem
KJV: Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
AKJV: Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.
ASV: Yea, ye would castlotsupon the fatherless,
YLT: Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.
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Job 6:27
Verse 27 Ye overwhelm the fatherless - Ye see that I am as destitute as the most miserable orphan; would ye overwhelm such a one? and would you dig a pit for your friend - do ye lay wait for me, and endeavor to entangle me in my talk? I believe this to be the spirit of Job's words.
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Job 6:27
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Exposition: Job 6:27 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:28
Hebrew
וְעַתָּה הוֹאִילוּ פְנוּ־בִי וְעַל־פְּנֵיכֶם אִם־אֲכַזֵּֽב׃ve'atah-hvo'iylv-fenv-viy-ve'al-feneykhem-'im-'akhazev
KJV: Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
AKJV: Now therefore be content, look on me; for it is evident to you if I lie.
ASV: Now therefore be pleased to look upon me;
YLT: And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?
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Job 6:28
Verse 28 Look upon me - View me; consider my circumstances; compare my words; and you must be convinced that I have spoken nothing but truth.
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Job 6:28
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Exposition: Job 6:28 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:29
Hebrew
שֻֽׁבוּ־נָא אַל־תְּהִי עַוְלָה ושבי וְשׁוּבוּ עוֹד צִדְקִי־בָֽהּ׃shuvv-na'-'al-tehiy-'avelah-vshvy-veshvvv-'vod-tzideqiy-vah
KJV: Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
AKJV: Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yes, return again, my righteousness is in it.
ASV: Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice;
YLT: Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again--my righteousness is in it.
Commentary WitnessJob 6:29Quoted commentary witness
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Job 6:29
Verse 29 Return, I pray you - Reconsider the whole subject. Do not be offended. Yea, reconsider the subject; my righteousness is in it - my argumentation is a sufficient proof of my innocence.
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Job 6:29
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Ray
- Return
- Yea
Exposition: Job 6:29 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 6:30
Hebrew
הֲיֵשׁ־בִּלְשׁוֹנִי עַוְלָה אִם־חִכִּי לֹא־יָבִין הַוּֽוֹת׃hayesh-vileshvoniy-'avelah-'im-chikhiy-lo'-yaviyn-havvot
KJV: Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
AKJV: Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
ASV: Is there injustice on my tongue?
YLT: Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?
Commentary WitnessJob 6:30Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 6:30
Verse 30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? - Am I not an honest man? and if in my haste my tongue had uttered falsity, would not my conscience discern it? and do you think that such a man as your friend is would defend what he knew to be wrong? I Have done what I could to make this chapter plain, to preserve the connection, and show the dependence of the several parts on each other; without which many of the sayings would have been very obscure. The whole chapter is an inimitable apology for what he had uttered, and a defense of his conduct. This might have ended the controversy, had not his friends been determined to bring him in guilty. They had prejudged his cause, and assumed a certain position, from which they were determined not to be driven.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 6:30
Source lane
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Exposition: Job 6:30 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
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- Job 6:1-13
- Job 6:14-20
- Job 6:21-23
- Job 6:24-30
- Job 6:1
- Job 6:2
- Job 6:3
- Job 6:4
- Job 6:5
- Job 6:6
- Job 6:7
- Job 6:8
- Job 6:9
- Job 6:10
- Job 6:11
- Job 6:12
- Job 6:13
- Job 6:14
- Job 6:15
- Job 6:16
- Job 6:17
- Job 6:18
- Job 6:19
- Job 6:20
- Job 6:21
- Job 6:22
- Job 6:23
- Job 6:24
- Job 6:25
- Job 6:26
- Job 6:27
- Job 6:28
- Job 6:29
- Job 6:30
Named authorities or texts surfaced in commentary
- Ray
- Almighty
- Aaly
- Toozuki Teemour
- Almighty God
- Archer
- Lord
- Septuagint
- Vulgate
- Mr
- Yet
- This
- Chaldee
- Homo
- Quaest
- Acad
- So Homer
- Greeks
- Illiad
- Trojans
- Pope
- Job
- Afflicted
- Dr
- Friend Indeed
- Romane
- Hor
- Satyr
- Or
- Roman
- Francis
- Ganges
- Sheba
- Return
- Yea
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Job 6:1
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