Job 6:23 (BSB)
deliver me from the hand of the enemy; redeem me from the grasp of the ruthless’?
Commentary on Job 6:23
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 6:22-30: Poor Job goes on here to upbraid his friends with their unkindness and the hard usage they gave him. He here appeals to themselves concerning several things which tended both to justify him and to condemn them. If they would but think impartially, and speak as they thought, they could not but own, I. That, though he was necessitous, yet he was not craving, nor burdensome to his friends.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 6:23: Teach me, and I will hold my tongue,.... Job having made his defence, and which he thought a sufficient one to acquit him of the charge against him; yet to show that he was not stubborn and flexible, but was open to conviction, and ready to attend and hearken to what might be further said, desires to be taught and instructed in the way of...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 6:23: the mighty--the oppressor, or creditor, in whose power the debtor was [UMBREIT].
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Job 6:21-23: Job 6:21-23 21 For now ye are become nothing; You see misfortune, and are affrighted. 22 Have I then said, Give unto me, And give a present for me from your substance, 23 And deliver me from the enemy’s hand, And redeem me from the hand of the tyrant?