Job 6:1 (BSB)
Then Job replied:
Commentary on Job 6:1
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 6:1-7: Eliphaz, in the beginning of his discourse, had been very sharp upon Job, and yet it does not appear that Job gave him any interruption, but heard him patiently till he had said all he had to say. Those that would make an impartial judgment of a discourse must hear it out, and take it entire.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 6:1: But Job answered and said. Though Eliphaz thought his speech was unanswerable, being, as he and his friends judged, unquestionably true, and the fruit of strict, laborious, and diligent search and inquiry; or, "then Job answered" (t), as the same particle is rendered, Job 4:1; after he had heard Eliphaz out; he waited with patience until he had finished his discourse, without giving him any...
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 6:1: Lo this, we have searched it, so it [is]; hear it, and know thou [it] for thy good. (z) We have learned these points by experience, that God does not punish the innocent, that man cannot compare in justice with him, that the hypocrites will not prosper for long, and that the affliction which man sustains comes for his own sin.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Job 6:1-4: Job 6:1-4 1 Then began Job, and said: 2 Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And they would put my suffering in the balance against it! 3 Then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: Therefore my words are rash.