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6:1 Then Job <0347> responded <06030>: 6:2 “Oh <03863>, if only my grief <03708> could be weighed <08254> <08254>, and my misfortune <01962> laid <05375> on the scales <03976> too <03162>! 6:3 But because <03588> it is heavier <03513> than the sand <02344> of <05921> the sea <03220>, that is why <03651> my words <01697> have been wild <03886>. 6:4 For <03588> the arrows <02671> of the Almighty <07706> are within me <05978>; my spirit <07307> drinks <08354> their poison <02534>; God’s <0433> sudden terrors <01161> are arrayed <06186> against me. 6:5 “Does the wild donkey <06501> bray <05101> when it is near <05921> grass <01877>? Or <0518> does the ox <07794> low <01600> near <05921> its fodder <01098>? 6:6 Can food that is tasteless <08602> be eaten <0398> without <01097> salt <04417>? Or <0518> is <03426> there any taste <02940> in the white <07388> of an egg <02495>? 6:7 I <05315> have refused <03985> to touch <05060> such things; they <01992> are like loathsome <01741> food <03899> to me. 6:8 “Oh <05414> <04310> that my request <07596> would be realized <0935>, and that God <0433> would grant <05414> me what I long <08615> for! 6:9 And that God <0433> would be willing <02974> to crush <01792> me, that he would let loose <05425> his hand <03027> and kill <01214> me. 6:10 Then I would yet <05750> have my comfort <05165>, then I would rejoice <05539>, in spite of pitiless <02550> <03808> pain <02427>, for <03588> I have not <03808> concealed <03582> the words <0561> of the Holy One <06918>. 6:11 What <04100> is my strength <03581>, that <03588> I should wait <03176>? and what <04100> is my end <07093>, that <03588> I should prolong <0748> my life <05315>? 6:12 Is my strength <03581> like that of stones <068>? or <0518> is my flesh <01320> made of bronze <05153>? 6:13 Is not <0369> my power to help <05833> myself nothing, and has not every resource <08454> been driven <05080> from <04480> me? 6:14 “To the one in despair <04523>, kindness <02617> should come from his friend <07453> even if he forsakes <05800> the fear <03374> of the Almighty <07706>. 6:15 My brothers <0251> have been as treacherous <0898> as <03644> a seasonal stream <05158>, and as the riverbeds <0650> of the intermittent streams <05158> that flow away <05674>. 6:16 They are dark <06937> because <04480> of ice <07140>; snow <07950> is piled up <05956> over <05921> them.

• Job 6:1-4 -- Job Replies to Eliphaz
• Job 6:5-7 -- Complaints Reflect Suffering
• Job 6:8-13 -- A Cry for Death
• Job 6:14-21 -- Disappointing Friends

• Afflictions and Adversities

  [nave] AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES. List of Sub-Topics Miscellany of Minor Sub-Topics; Unclassified Scriptures Relating to; Benefits of; Benefits of, Illustrated; Consolation in; Deliverance from; Design of; Despondency in; Dispe...
  

• Job

  [nave] JOB 1. A man who dwelt in Uz, Job 1:1. Righteousness of, Job 1:1, 5, 8; 2:3; Ezek. 14:14, 20. Riches of, Job 1:3. Trial of, by affliction of Satan, Job 1:13-19; 2:7-10. Fortitude of, Job 1:20-22; 2:10; Jas. 5:11. Visite...
  

• Complaint

  [nave] COMPLAINT of Israelites against Moses, Ex. 5:21; 15:24; 16:2, 3; Num. 16:2, 3, 13, 14, 41; 20:2-4. Against God Ex. 5:22, 23; Ex. 16:8, 12; Num. 14:26-37 Num. 17:10, 11. Job 15:11-13; Job 33:12, 13; Job 34:37; Psa. 37:1; Ps...
  

• JOB, BOOK OF

  [isbe] JOB, BOOK OF - || I. INTRODUCTORY 1. Place in the Canon 2. Rank and Readers II. THE LITERARY FRAMEWORK 1. Setting of Time, Place and Scene 2. Characters and Personality 3. Form and Style III. THE COURSE OF THE STORY A) To Jo...
  

• Death

  [nave] DEATH. Called in some versions &ld;Giving Up the Ghost,&rd; Gen. 25:8; 35:29; Lam. 1:19; Acts 5:10. King of Terrors Job 18:14. A Change Job 14:14. Going to your Fathers Gen. 15:15; 25:8; 35:29. Putting Off This Tabe...
  

• Ice

  [ebd] frequently mentioned (Job 6:16; 38:29; Ps. 147:17, etc.). (See CRYSTAL.)
  [isbe] ICE - is (qerach): Ice is almost unknown in Palestine and Syria except on the highest mountains. At moderate heights of less than 4,000 ft. a little ice may form during the night in winter, but the warm rays of the sun melt ...
  [nave] ICE, Job 6:16; 38:29; Psa. 147:17; Prov. 25:13.
  

• SALT

  [ebd] used to season food (Job 6:6), and mixed with the fodder of cattle (Isa. 30:24, "clean;" in marg. of R.V. "salted"). All meat-offerings were seasoned with salt (Lev. 2:13). To eat salt with one is to partake of his hospitali...
  [isbe] SALT - solt (melach; halas, hals): Common salt is considered by most authorities as an essential ingredient of our food. Most people intentionally season their cooking with more or less salt for the sake of palatability. Oth...
  

• Snow

  [isbe] SNOW - sno (shelegh, telagh (Dan 7:9); chion): (1) Snow is not uncommon in the winter in Jerusalem, but it never reaches any depth and in many winters it is not seen at all. It usually disappears, for the most part, as soon ...
  [nave] SNOW In Palestine, 2 Sam. 23:20. In Uz, Job 6:16; 9:30; 37:6. On mount Lebanon, Jer. 18:14. Figurative Of purity, Psa. 51:7; Isa. 1:18; Lam. 4:7.
  

• COLOR; COLORS

  [isbe] COLOR; COLORS - kul'-er, kul'-erz: The word translated "color" in the King James Version is `ayin, which literally means "eye" or "appearance," and has been so translated in the Revised Version (British and American). In the...
  

• EGG

  [ebd] (Heb. beytsah, "whiteness"). Eggs deserted (Isa. 10:14), of a bird (Deut. 22:6), an ostrich (Job 39:14), the cockatrice (Isa. 59:5). In Luke 11:12, an egg is contrasted with a scorpion, which is said to be very like an egg i...
  [isbe] EGG - (betsah; oon; Latin ovum): An oval or spheroid body produced by birds, fishes and reptiles, from which their young emerge when incubated or naturally developed. The fertile egg of a bird consists of the yolk, a small d...
  

• Friendship

  [nave] FRIENDSHIP. Deut. 13:6-9; Job 6:14, 15; Job 16:2, 20; Job 19:13-22; Psa. 35:13, 14; Psa. 41:9; Psa. 55:12-14; Psa. 88:8, 18; Prov. 11:13; Prov. 17:9, 17; Prov. 18:24; Prov. 22:24-27; Prov. 25:17, 19; Prov. 27:6, 9, 10, 14, ...
  

• Sympathy

  [nave] SYMPATHY. Job 2:11-13; Job 6:14; Job 22:29; Eccl. 7:2; Phil. 2:1, 2; Jas. 1:27; 1 Pet. 3:8 See: Afflictions; Suffering, Alleviation of; Jesus, Compassion of; Pity.
  

• STREAM

  [isbe] STREAM - strem: (1) nachal, English Versions of the Bible "stream," as: "Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed" (Ps 78:20). Often "valley," as "the valley (the King James Version "river...
  

• SAND

  [isbe] SAND - (chol; ammos; a variant of the more usual psammos; compare amathos, psamathos): Sand is principally produced by the grinding action of waves. This is accompanied by chemical solution, with the result that the more sol...
  

• PROVENDER

  [isbe] PROVENDER - prov'-en-der ((1) micpo', from obsolete capha', "to feed," fodder for cattle in general (Gen 24:25,32; 42:27; Jdg 19:19,21); (2) belil, from balal, "to mix": "Loweth the ox over his fodder?" (Job 6:5); belil cham...
  

• PETITION

  [isbe] PETITION - pe-tish'-un: Used in English Versions of the Bible only as a noun, usually as representing the Hebrew she'elah (Ps 20:5, mish'alah), from the common verb [~sha'al, "to ask." The noun, consequently, has no technica...
  

• PITY

  [isbe] PITY - pit'-i (chamal, chuc; eleeo): "Pity," probably contracted from "piety," is tender feeling for others in misery or distress. It is allied to compassion (which see), but differs in respect of the object that causes the ...
  

• PROLONG

  [isbe] PROLONG - pro-long' ('arakh, mashakh): "Prolong," "prolonged" are the translations of 'arakh, "to stretch," "to make long" (Dt 4:26, and frequently, "prolong days"; 4:40, etc.; Job 6:11 the King James Version; Prov 28:16; Ec...
  

• TENDER

  [isbe] TENDER - ten'-der: The usua1 (11 out of 16 times) translation of rakh, "soft," "delicate," with the noun rokh, in Dt 28:56 and the verb rakhakh, in 2 Ki 22:19 parallel 2 Ch 34:27. Attention need be called only to the followi...
  

• TERRIBLE, TERROR

  [isbe] TERRIBLE, TERROR - ter'-i-b'l, ter'-er (yare', "to be feared," "reverenced," arits, "powerful," "tyrannical," 'ayom, "aweinspiring," chittith "terror," ballahah, "a worn-out or wasted thing," 'emah, "fright"; phoberos, "drea...
  

• The Strength Is Fainting

  

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