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Job 6 Bible study: Kindness from his friend
Job never asked his friends for a present or to be redeemed (6:22-23). He says chesed, kindness, should be shown from a friend to one who is, in a Hebrew word found only here in the Hebrew Bible, ready to faint (6:14), and he asks, "Teach me, and I will hold my peace" (6:24).
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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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“In Job 6, Job says he never asked his friends to offer a present for him or to redeem him.”
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The weight, and the rash words
Job's first words in this chapter are a wish about weight: "Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!" (6:2) (tap weighed, anguish, calamity). "For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash" (6:3) (tap rash). Job says it himself: his words have been rash, and he gives the reason in the same verse, the weight of what he carries. The word behind anguish is ka'as, and Eliphaz had used it in his speech: "For resentment kills the foolish man" (5:2). The WEB gives it as resentment there and anguish here. The chapter doesn't say Job is taking up Eliphaz's word; these notes only set the two side by side. And the word behind calamity in 6:2 comes back in the chapter's last verse: "Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?" (6:30).
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- What a friend owes
- What Job asks for, and what he didn't
- The brook that isn't there
- "The arrows of the Almighty"
- What companions owe one another
- 9 questions as you read
- 13 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
חֶסֶדchesedsay KHE-sed
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "goodness, kindness", and among its senses, "kindness (especially as extended to the lowly, needy and miserable)". Strong's: "kindness". "To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend" (6:14). The Hebrew of Job has it three times: here; in Job's words to God, "You have granted me life and loving kindness" (10:12); and in Elihu's, "or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come" (37:13). In 6:14 it stands beside friend (rea); the two come together again in Absalom's question to Hushai, "Is this your kindness to your friend?" (2 Samuel 16:17).
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Job 6 Bible study questions
- 1Job says, "To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend" (6:14). When you've been worn down, what did kindness from a friend actually look like?
- 2Job pictures his friends as brooks that are gone when the caravans come looking for them (6:15-20). What makes it hard to stay with someone when their trouble goes on and on?
- 3Job asks, "Teach me, and I will hold my peace" (6:24), and then, "your reproof, what does it reprove?" (6:25). What's the difference between words that help someone who is hurting and words that only correct them?
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