Job 6
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 6, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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But Job answered and said,
Job 6:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! {laid: Heb. lifted up}
Job 6:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. {my words...: that is, I want words to express my grief}
Job 6:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Job 6:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? {when he...: Heb. at grass?}
Job 6:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there {any} taste in the white of an egg?
Job 6:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The things {that} my soul refused to touch {are} as my sorrowful meat.
Job 6:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant {me} the thing that I long for! {the thing...: Heb. my expectation}
Job 6:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 6:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Job 6:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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What {is} my strength, that I should hope? and what {is} mine end, that I should prolong my life?
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{Is} my strength the strength of stones? or {is} my flesh of brass? {of brass: Heb. brasen?}
Job 6:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Is} not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
Job 6:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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To him that is afflicted pity {should be shewed} from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. {is afflicted: Heb. melteth}
Job 6:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, {and} as the stream of brooks they pass away;
Job 6:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which are blackish by reason of the ice, {and} wherein the snow is hid:
Job 6:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. {vanish: Heb. are cut off} {when...: Heb. in the heat thereof} {consumed: Heb. extinguished}
Job 6:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
Job 6:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
Job 6:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
Job 6:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For now ye are nothing; ye see {my} casting down, and are afraid. {ye are...: or, ye are like to them: Heb. to it} {nothing: Heb. not}
Job 6:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
Job 6:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
Job 6:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Job 6:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Job 6:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, {which are} as wind?
Job 6:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig {a pit} for your friend. {ye overwhelm: Heb. ye cause to fall upon}
Job 6:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now therefore be content, look upon me; for {it is} evident unto you if I lie. {evident...: Heb. before your face}
Job 6:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness {is} in it. {in it: that is, in this matter}
Job 6:29 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? {my taste: Heb. my palate}
Job 6:30 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.