--- title: "Job 6 - Study King James Bible with cokes commentary on the holy bible" description: "Read Job 6 with cokes commentary on the holy bible commentary. 1 But Job answered and said, 2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! 3 For now it would be heavier than" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/job/6" --- [ Read](/kjv/job/6)[ Commentary](/study/job/6)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/job/6) Audio 1 But Job answered and said, 2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!* 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.* 4 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. 5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?* 6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there *any* taste in the white of an egg? 7 The things *that* my soul refused to touch *are* as my sorrowful meat. 8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant *me* the thing that I long for!* 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! 10 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. 11 What *is* my strength, that I should hope? and what *is* mine end, that I should prolong my life? 12 *Is* my strength the strength of stones? or *is* my flesh of brass?* 13 *Is* not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? 14 To him that is afflicted pity *should be shewed* from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.* 15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, *and* as the stream of brooks they pass away; 16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, *and* wherein the snow is hid: 17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.*** 18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish. 19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. 20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed. 21 For now ye are nothing; ye see *my* casting down, and are afraid.** 22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? 23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? 24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. 25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? 26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, *which are* as wind? 27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig *a pit* for your friend.* 28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for *it is* evident unto you if I lie.* 29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness *is* in it.* 30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?* [Job 5](/study/job/5) [Job 7](/study/job/7) ## Commentary To verse 1 CHAP. VI. *Job sheweth that his complaints are not causeless: he wisheth for death, wherein he is assured of comfort: he reproves his friends for their unkindness.* *Before Christ 1645.* ***[Job 6:1](/kjv/job/6/1)*****.*****But Job answered and said*****—** Job begins his defence with a modest apology for venting his grief in a manner somewhat unbecoming, and begs that it may be ascribed to the great multitude and sharpness of his afflictions; [Job 6:3-7](/kjv/job/6/3-7). But as to the advice given him by Eliphaz, to hope for an amendment of his condition, and to address God for that purpose, he tells them that his petition to God should be of a quite different nature; namely, that he would be pleased to cut him off speedily, for that the desperateness of his condition would by no means permit him to hope for any amendment; [Job 6:8-13](/kjv/job/6/8-13). That he could not, however, help resenting their unkind suspicions of him, that they should think him capable of such great wickedness, but, above all, should imagine him to be so abandoned as to be able to entertain a thought tending to a revolt from the Almighty; which yet they must have done, or Eliphaz would never have dared to make him such a proposition; [Job 6:14-20](/kjv/job/6/14-20). He saw, therefore, what kind of friends he had to do with: as soon as they perceived him in a remediless condition, they began to treat him with contempt; [Job 6:21-27](/kjv/job/6/21-27). As to his recovery, however, he tells them that they may set their hearts at ease; for if they would but consider his condition a little more attentively, they might soon be convinced that there was not the least chance of any thing of that nature, as all hopes of life were at an end with him. He begs them, therefore, not to condemn him barely on suspicion, and on the strength of general maxims; but to consider that it was possible he might be innocent of their charges; [Job 6:28-30](/kjv/job/6/28-30). 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