Job 6

Treated in 5 passages across the library.

  • 6:6 Can tasteless food be eaten without salt, or is there any flavor in the slime of purslane? 2
  • 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are in me, and my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are lined up against me. 1
  • 6:10 Then I would still have this comfort, and I would leap for joy in pain that does not let up: that I have not denied the words of the Holy One. 1
  • 6:25 How forceful honest words can be! But what does your arguing prove? 1

Open Word Bible

  1. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    An exhortation to love God cites Job vi. 6

    …They can taste no more sweetness in spiritual things than in the “white of an egg” (Job vi. 6). This is a sign they are in a consumption; to lose the taste, argues the loss of the…

  2. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    The worst things work for good to the godly cites Job vi. 4

    …“The arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinks up my spirits” (Job vi. 4). It was a custom among the Persians in their wars to dip their arrows in the poison of…

  3. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.4 The Fourth Commandment cites Job 6: 25

    …16. There is great power and efficacy in good discourse. ‘How forcible are right words!’ Job 6: 25. By holy conference on a Sabbath, one Christian helps to warm another when he is frozen…

  4. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Holiness of God cites Job 6:10

    …by which God is known. Psa 111:9. ‘Holy and reverend is his name.’ He is ‘the holy One.’ Job 6:10. Seraphims cry, ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his…

  5. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Joy cites Job 6:6

    …him. (4.) After desertion. Desertion is a poisoned arrow which shoots to the heart. Job 6:6. God is called a fire and a light: the deserted soul feels the fire, but does not see the…