Ayub 6:21

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Demikianlah kamu sekarang bagiku, ketika melihat yang dahsyat, takutlah kamu.

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Demikianlah kamu sekarang bagiku, ketika melihat yang dahsyat, takutlah kamu.

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Demikianlah sekarang kamupun tiada berfaedah kepadaku; baharu kamu melihat kegentaran itu maka kamu lari!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye are nothing: or, ye are like to them, Heb. to it, Job 6:15, Job 13:4, Psalms 62:9, Isaiah 2:22, Jeremiah 17:5, Jeremiah 17:6

nothing: Heb. not

ye see: Job 2:11-13, Psalms 38:11, Proverbs 19:7, Jeremiah 51:9, Matthew 26:31, Matthew 26:56, 2 Timothy 4:16, Revelation 18:9, Revelation 18:10, Revelation 18:17, Revelation 18:18

Reciprocal: Job 19:13 - estranged Psalms 31:11 - a fear Proverbs 14:20 - poor Proverbs 27:10 - neither

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For now ye are nothing,.... Once they seemed to be something to him; he thought them men wise, good, and religious, kind, bountiful, and tenderhearted; but now he found them otherwise, they were nothing to him as friends or as comforters in his distress; the "Cetib", or Scripture, is, as we read, and is followed by many; but the marginal reading is, "now ye are to it" a; that is, ye are like to it, the brook whose waters he had been describing; so Jarchi interprets it; Mr. Broughton very agreeably takes in both, "so now ye are become like that, even nothing"; as that deceitful brook is no more, nor of any use to travellers fainting through thirst; so ye are like that, of no use and advantage to me in my affliction:

ye see [my] casting down; from a state of prosperity to a state of adversity; from a pinnacle of honour, from being the greatest man in the east, a civil magistrate, and the head of a flourishing family, to the lowest degree of disgrace and dishonour; from wealth and riches to want and poverty; as well as saw the inward dejection of his mind, through the poisoned arrows of the Almighty within him:

and ye are afraid; of the righteous judgments of God, taking these calamities to be such, and fearing the same or the like should fall on them, should they keep him company; or however should they patronize and defend him; and afraid also of being too near him, lest his breath, and the smell of him, should be infectious, and they should catch a distemper from him; or lest he should be expensive and troublesome to them.

a כי עתה הייתם לו "certe nunc fuistis illi", Bolducius; so Michaelis; "certe nunc estis similes illi", Pagninus, Vatablus, Mercerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For now ye are as nothing - Margin, “or, Ye are like to it, or them.” In the margin also the word “nothing” is rendered “not.” This variety arises from a difference of reading in the Hebrew text, many MSS. having instead of (לא lô'), not, (לו lô'), to him, or to it. Which is correct, it is not easy to determine. Rosenmuller supposes that it is only a variety in writing the word לא l', where the waw is often used for .א The probability is, that it means, that they were as nothing - like the stream that had disappeared. This is the point of the comparison; and this Job now applies to his friends. They had promised much by their coming - like the streams when swollen by rains and melted ice. But now they were found to be nothing.

Ye see my casting down - חתת chăthath - my being broken or crushed; my calamity. Vulgate, plugam. Septuagint, τραῦμα trauma, wound.

And are afraid - Are timid and fearful. You shrink back; you dare not approach the subject boldly, or come to me with words of consolation. You came with a professed intention to administer comfort, but your courage fails.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 6:21. For now ye are nothing — Ye are just to me as those deceitful torrents to the caravans of Tema and Sheba; they were nothing to them; ye are nothing to me.

Ye see my casting down — Ye see that I have been hurried from my eminence into want and misery, as the flood from the top of the mountains, which is divided, evaporated, and lost in the desert.

And are afraid. — Ye are terrified at the calamity that has come upon me; and instead of drawing near to comfort me, ye start back at my appearance.