Job Chapter 6 verse 14 Holy Bible
To him that is ready to faint kindness `should be showed' from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.
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For him that is fainting kindness [is meet] from his friend; or he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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To him that is afflicted pity should be shown from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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"To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; Even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
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To a despiser of his friends `is' shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend. Job begins here the third head of his reply to Eliphaz, in which he attacks him and his companions. The first duty of a comforter is to compassionate his afflicted friend, to condole with him, and show his sympathy with his sufferings. This is what every one looks for and expects as a matter of course. But Job has looked in vain. He has received no pity, no sympathy. Nothing has been offered him but arguments. And what arguments! How do they touch the point? How are they anything more than a venting of the speaker's own self-righteousness? Let them fairly consider his case, and point out to him where he has been blamable. But he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty; rather, even though he forsake the fear of the Almighty, or else might he forsake the fear of the Almighty. Job certainly does not mean to admit that he has renounced the fear of God, and become an apostate from religion; but only to assert, either, that, even had he done so, his friends ought still to have shown him kindness, or else that their not showing him kindness is the very way to drive him to apostasy.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) But he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.--It is difficult to determine the precise relation of dependent clauses in an archaic language like the Hebrew; but the Authorised Version is, at all events, not correct here, the sense rather being, "Even to one that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty;" or, perhaps, better still, "lest he should forsake;" or, "he may even forsake," &c.
