Job 7:7

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:1-21

DOES GOD NOT RECOMPENSE GOOD DEEDS? (vv.1-16) Job's questions in verse 1 indicate why he was so distressed at God's dealings. No doubt too his friends would agree to his questions. "Is there not a time of hard service for man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired man?" How many people are like Job in this matter. They consider their relationship to God as being like that of a hired man working for a righteous employer. If they do right, their recompense should be good: if... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Job 7:1-21

FIRST SERIES OF THE DEBATE The first series of the debate may be outlined as follows: 1. With Eliphaz (chaps. 4-7) a. Speech of Eliphaz (chaps. 4-5) b. Reply of (chaps. 6-7) 2. With Bildad (chaps. 8-10) a. Speech of Bildad (chap. 8) b. Reply of Job (chaps. 9-10) 3. With Zophar (chaps. 11-14) a. Speech of Zophar (chap. 11) b. Reply of Job (chaps. 12-14) It is thought the debate may have occupied several days, by which supposition some of the difficulties of the book are removed. In the... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Job 7:1-21

Job's Answer to Eliphaz Job 6-7 The speech of Eliphaz, which we have already considered, was not the kind of speech to be answered off-handedly. We have been struck by its nobleness and sublimity, its fulness of wisdom; and, indeed, we have not seen any reason, such as Job seems to have seen, for denying to that great speech the merit of sympathy. Why, then, does Job break out into these lamentations? The reason appears to be obvious. We must come upon grief in one of two ways, and Job seems... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 7:7-10

(7) ¶ O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. (8) The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. (9) As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. (10) He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him anymore. From man Job appears to be turning unto GOD. Oh! that in all the afflictions of the LORD'S faithful ones, this plan was more adopted. I do... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 7:7

Wind. What is life compared with eternity, or even with past ages? (Calmet) --- "What is any one? Yea, what is no one? Men are the dream of a shadow," says Pindar; (Pyth. viii. Greek: Skias onar onthropoi ) "like the baseless fabric of a vision." (Shakespeare) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:7-16

7-16 Plain truths as to the shortness and vanity of man's life, and the certainty of death, do us good, when we think and speak of them with application to ourselves. Dying is done but once, and therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation vanishes away. Glorified saints shall return no more to the cares and sorrows of their houses; nor condemned... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Job 7:1-8

The General Misery of Human Life v. 1. Is there not an appointed time, warfare, a fixed and wearing service, to man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of an hireling, one who works for wages? The figure is that of a man drafted for military service, and then of a man who has hired out to perform a certain task, the idea being that in either case man longs for the end of the labor appointed to him. v. 2. As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, as the slave eagerly looks... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Job 7:1-21

B.—Job’s Reply: Instead of Comfort, the Friends bring him only increased SorrowJob 6:1 to Job 7:211. Justification of his complaint by pointing out the greatness and incomprehensibleness of his sufferingJob 6:1-101 But Job answered and said:2 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed,and my calamity laid in the balance together!3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;therefore my words are swallowed up.4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me,the poison... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Job 7:1-21

Longing for the Evening Job 7:1-21 The servant eagerly longs for the lengthening shadow, which tells him that his day of labor is at an end, and we may allow ourselves to anticipate the hour of our reward and deliverance. In plaintive words, which have so often been on the lips of heavy sufferers, Job tells the story of his sorrow and bitterness. The sufferer addresses God directly-almost suggesting at first that God was persecuting him without cause. Let those who have been disposed to... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Job 7:1-21

Without waiting for their reply, Job broke out into a new lamentation, more bitter than the first, for it came out of a heart whose sorrow was aggravated by the misunderstanding of friends. Indeed, its very strength was a new protest against the only open charge Eliphaz had made, namely, of sin and foolishness in complaining at all. In this lamentation there are two movements: first, a great complaint concerning the stress and misery of life (1- l0), and, second, a complaint directed against... read more