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Job 6:21

Job 6:21
For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Did I say, bring unto me?.... Or, "give unto me" (b); did I invite you to come to me, and bring in your hands presents for me, to support me under my necessitous circumstances?

or give a reward for…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 6:14-21

Eliphaz had been very severe in his censures of Job; and his companions, though as yet they had said little, yet had intimated their concurrence with him. Their unkindness therein poor Job here…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

ye are nothing Or, are become nothing. Job applies his comparison. Another reading is: ye are become it, i. e. the deceitful, disappointing brook. The general sense remains the same.

my casting down…