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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 7:20

I have sinned . This is not so much a confession as a concession, equivalent to "Granting that I have sinned," or, "Suppose that I have sinned." In that case, What shall I do unto thee? or, What can I do for thee? How is it in my power to do anything? Can I undo the past? Or can I make compensation in the future? Neither seems to Job to be possible . O thou Preserver of men ; rather, thou Observer of men. A continuation of the complaint that God's eye is always upon him . Why hast... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 7:21

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? Job feels that, if he has sinned, which he is ready to admit as possible, though he has certainly no deep conviction of sin ( Job 6:24 , Job 6:29 , Job 6:30 ; Job 7:19 ), at any rate he has not sinned greatly, heinously; and therefore he cannot understand why he has not been forgiven. The idea that the Almighty cannot forgive sin except upon conditions, is unknown to him. Believing God to be a God of mercy,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 7:21

A sinner's inquiry. I. A CONFESSION . My transgression, mine iniquity. II. A RECOGNITION . Of: 1 . The possibility of pardon. 2 . The meaning of pardon—to take away sin. III. AN INTERROGATION . "Why dost thou not take away mine iniquity?" 1 . A question natural to ask. 2 . A question easy to answer (see preceding homiletics). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 7:21

Limits to forgiveness. If he has done wrong, and deserves to suffer, yet Job wonders why God does not pardon him. Is his Master altogether implacable? Will he exact the last farthing? Taking Job's question in a wider sense, we may ask—Why is not God's forgiveness unlimited and immediate? I. THE EXPECTATION OF UNLIMITED FORGIVENESS . This is based on the power and on the goodness of God. 1 . His power. The leper prayed, "If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean" ( Mark 1:40 ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 7:19

How long wilt thou not depart? - How long is this to continue? The same word occurs in Job 14:6. The word rendered “depart” שׁעה shâ‛âh means to look, to look around, and then to look away from anyone or anything. The idea here is, that God had fixed his eyes upon Job, and he asks with anxiety, how long this was to continue, and when he would turn his eyes away; compare the notes at Job 7:8. Schultens supposes that the metaphor here is taken from combatants, who never take their eyes from... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 7:20

I have sinned - חטאתי châṭâ'tı̂y. This is a literal translation, and as it stands in the common version it is the language of a penitent - confessing that he had erred, and making humble acknowledgment of his sins. That such a confession became Job, and that he would be willing to admit that he was a sinner, there can be no doubt; but the connection seems rather to require a different sense - a sense implying that though he had sinned, yet his offences could not be such as to require the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 7:21

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression? - Admitting that I have sinned Job 7:20, yet why dost thou not forgive me? I shall soon pass away from the land of the living. I may be sought but I shall not be found. No one would be injured by my being pardoned - since I am so short-lived, and so unimportant in the scale of being. No one can be benefited by pursuing a creature of a day, such as I am, with punishment. Such seems to be the meaning of this verse. It is the language of complaint,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 7:19

Job 7:19. How long wilt thou not depart from me How long will it be ere thou withdraw thy afflicting hand from me? The Hebrew is literally, How long wilt thou not take thine eyes off me? “This,” says Dodd, “is a metaphor from combatants, who never take their eyes from off their antagonists. The figure is preserved in the next sentence, which represents a combatant seized by his adversary in such a manner as to prevent his swallowing his spittle or fetching his breath.” Till I swallow my... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 7:20

Job 7:20. I have sinned Although I am free from those crying sins for which my friends suppose thou hast sent this uncommon judgment upon me; yet I freely confess that I am a sinner, and therefore obnoxious to thy justice. And what shall I do unto thee? To satisfy thy justice, or regain thy favour. I can do nothing to purchase or deserve it, and therefore implore thy mercy to pardon my sins; O thou Preserver of men O thou, who, as thou wast the Creator of man, delightest to be, and to... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 7:21

Job 7:21. Why dost thou not pardon, &c. Seeing thou art so gracious to others, so ready to preserve and forgive them; why may not I hope for the same favour from thee? For now shall I sleep in the dust If thou dost not speedily help me it will be too late, I shall be dead, and so incapable of receiving those blessings which thou art wont to give to men in the land of the living; and thou shalt seek me, &c., but I shall not be When thou shalt diligently seek for me that thou... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 7:20

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 7:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 7:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 7:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 7:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 7:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 7:21

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 7:19

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 7:20

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 7:21

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