Job 6:22

22 Whether I (ever) said, Bring ye to me, and give ye of your chattel to me?

Job 6:22 Meaning and Commentary

Job 6:22

Did I say, bring unto me?
&c.] Or, "give unto me" F2; 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 me of your substance?
did I ever ask anything of you? if I had, it would have been but your duty to have given freely to me in my deplorable circumstances; and it might have been expected you would have given without asking, seeing my necessities so great: or did I desire you to communicate out of the great wealth and abundant riches you are possessed of to others on my behalf, to plead my cause among men, and to get a favourable sentence upon me, that I might not be traduced as a wicked man by censorious tongues? had I ever been troublesome to you in any respect, you might have been provoked to use me ill; but since nothing of this kind has ever been requested of you, you might have forborne ill language and hard words; which are often given to beggars; for when a man is fallen to decay, and becomes troublesome by his importunity, twenty things are raked up by his friends against his character; as that he has been lazy and indolent, or lavish and extravagant to save their money, and excuse them from acts of charity; but this was not the case here.


FOOTNOTES:

F2 (yl wbh) "date mihi", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Cocceius, Michaelis.

Job 6:22 In-Context

20 They be shamed, for I hoped (They be ashamed, for they had hoped); and they came unto me, and they be covered with shame.
21 Now ye be come, and now ye see my wound, and dread (and ye fear it).
22 Whether I (ever) said, Bring ye to me, and give ye of your chattel to me?
23 either said, Deliver ye me from the hand of mine enemy, and draw away ye me from the hand of strong men? (or I said, Rescue ye me from the hands of my enemy, or draw ye me away from the hands of the strong?)
24 Teach ye me, and I shall be still (and I shall be quiet); and if in hap I unknew anything, teach ye me.
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