SEV Biblia, Chapter 6:14
¶ El atribulado es consolado de su compañero; pero se ha abandonado el temor del Omnipotente.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Job 6:14
Verse 14. To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. ] The Vulgate gives a better sense, Qui tollit ab amico suo misericordiam, timorem Domini dereliquit, "He who takes away mercy from his friend, hath cast off the fear of the Lord." The word sml lammas, which we render to him who is AFFLICTED, from hsm masah, to dissolve, or waste away, is in thirty-two of Dr. Kennicott's and Deuteronomy Rossi's MSS. saml lemoes, "to him that despiseth his friend;" and hence the passage may be read: To him who despiseth his friend, it is a reproach; and he will forsake the fear of the Almighty: or, as Mr. Good translates, "Shame to the man who despiseth his friend! He indeed hath departed from the fear of the Almighty." Eliphaz had, in effect, despised Job; and on this ground had acted any thing but the part of a friend towards him; and he well deserved the severe stroke which he here receives. A heathen said, Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur; the full sense of which we have in our common adage: - A FRIEND IN NEED is a FRIEND INDEED Job's friends, so called, supported each other in their attempts to blacken the character of this worthy man; and their hand became the heavier, because they supposed the hand of God was upon him. To each of them, individually, might be applied the words of another heathen: - - Absentem qui rodit amicum, Qui non defendit alio culpante; solutos Qui captat risus hominum, famamque dicacis, Fingere qui non visa potest; commissa tacere Qui nequit; hic niger est; hunc tu, Romane, caveto. HOR. Satyr. lib. i., s. iv., ver. 81. He who, malignant, tears an absent friend; Or, when attack'd by others, don't defend; Who trivial bursts of laughter strives to raise, And courts, of prating petulance, the praise; Of things he never saw who tells his tale, And friendship's secrets knows not to conceal; - This man is vile; here, Roman, fix your mark; His soul's as black as his complexion's dark. FRANCIS.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 14-30 - In his prosperity Job formed great expectations from his friends, but now was disappointed. This he compares to the failing of brooks i summer. Those who rest their expectations on the creature, will find it fail when it should help them; whereas those who make God their confidence, have help in the time of need, Heb 4:16. Those who make gold their hope, sooner or later will be ashamed of it, and of their confidence in it. It is our wisdom to cease from man. Let us put all our confidence in the Rock of ages, not in broken reeds; in the Fountain of life, not in broken cisterns. The application is very close; "for now ye are nothing." It were well for us, if we had alway such convictions of the vanity of the creature, as we have had, or shall have, on a sick-bed, a death-bed, or in trouble of conscience Job upbraids his friends with their hard usage. Though in want, he desired no more from them than a good look and a good word. It ofte happens that, even when we expect little from man, we have less; but from God, even when we expect much, we have more. Though Job differe from them, yet he was ready to yield as soon as it was made to appea that he was in error. Though Job had been in fault, yet they ought no to have given him such hard usage. His righteousness he holds fast, an will not let it go. He felt that there had not been such iniquity in him as they supposed. But it is best to commit our characters to Hi who keeps our souls; in the great day every upright believer shall have praise of God __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
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