Comentários de Citação sobre Jó 6:2

• As regards the second possibility, namely, that the interrelationship is metered and God will grant the person an amount of good that exactly balances the strife he has endured, he finds a contradiction in what he Bildad had said. For in this case, how could he Bildad have urged him to strengthen his resolve and accept the afflictions with joy? For this contradicts his assertion that the anguish is equated with the subsequent delight, justly balanced against it (Job 6:2). For if he braces himself and puts his agony and pain out of mind, his period of misery will just lengthen until he has suffered the measure of torment and anguish apportioned to him. It would be better for him were his torment to be intensified right now, for thereby the duration of his affliction would be shortened. (Ch.9:27-28)

הׂוׇה Mischief. It is derived from הוה to become; comp. ואתה הוה that thou mayest become (Neh. 6:6);¹⁷A. V., That thou mayest be. Although the root הוה has the general meaning to become, both in the good sense and in the evil, the noun הוה may still be said to be derived from the same root, and to be used only in the bad sense. it signifies an evil that comes suddenly; of the same root is והותי and my calamity (Job 6:2).