ヨブ記 7:3-6 JC

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 7:1-6

Job is here excusing what he could not justify, even his inordinate desire of death. Why should he not wish for the termination of life, which would be the termination of his miseries? To enforce this reason he argues, I. From the general condition of man upon earth (Job 7:1): ?He is of few days, and full of trouble. Every man must die shortly, and every man has some reason (more or less) to desire to die shortly; and therefore why should you impute it to me as so heinous a crime that I wish... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:3

So am I made to possess months of vanity ,.... This is not a reddition or application of the above similes of the servant and hireling, Job 7:1 ; for that is to be understood, and to be supplied at the end of Job 7:2 ; that as those looked for the shadow and payment of hire, so Job looked for and earnestly desired death, or to be removed out of the world; besides, the things here instanced in do not answer; for Job, instead of having the refreshing shadow, had months of vanity, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:4

When I lie down, I say, when shall I arise ,.... Or, "then I say", &c.; F20 ואמרתי "tum dixi", Beza, Piscator, Mercerus. ; that is, as soon as he laid himself down in his bed, and endeavoured to compose himself to sleep, in order to get rest and refreshment; then he said within himself, or with an articulate voice, to those about him, that sat up with him; oh that it was time to rise; when will it be morning, that I may rise from my bed, which is of no manner of service to me,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:5

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust ,.... Not as it would be at death, and in the grave, as Schmidt interprets it, when it would be eaten with worms and reduced to dust; but as it then was, his ulcers breeding worms, or lice, as some F25 So Sephorno and Bar Tzemach. ; these spread themselves over his body: some think it was the vermicular or pedicular disease that was upon him, and the scabs of them, which were all over him like one continued crust, were as a garment to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle ,.... Which moves very swiftly, being thrown quick and fast to and fro; some versions render it "a racer" F2 δρομεως , Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion in Drusius. one that runs a race on foot, or rides on horseback, agreeably to Job 9:25 ; where, and in Job 7:7 ; to it, other similes are used, to set forth the swiftness and fleetness of man's days; as they also are elsewhere represented, as swift as a tale told, a word expressed, or a... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:3

So am I made to possess - But night is no relief to me, it is only a continuance of my anxiety and labor. I am like the hireling, I have my appointed labor for the day. I am like the soldier harassed by the enemy: I am obliged to be continually on the watch, always on the look out, with scarcely any rest. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:4

When I lie down - I have so little rest, that when I do lie down I long for the return of the light, that I may rise. Nothing can better depict the state of a man under continual afflictions, which afford him no respite, his days and his nights being spent in constant anguish, utterly unable to be in any one posture, so that he is continually changing his position in his bed, finding ease nowhere: thus, as himself expresses it, he is full of tossings. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:5

My flesh is clothed with worms - This is perhaps no figure, but is literally true: the miserably ulcerated state of his body, exposed to the open air, and in a state of great destitution, was favorable to those insects that sought such places in which to deposit their ova, which might have produced the animals in question. But the figure is too horrid to be farther illustrated. Clods of dust - I believe all the commentators have here missed the sense. I suppose Job to allude to those... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:6

Swifter than a weaver's shuttle - The word ארג areg signifies rather the weaver than his shuttle. And it has been doubted whether any such instrument were in use in the days of Job. Dr. Russell, in his account of Aleppo, shows that though they wove many kinds of curious cloth, yet no shuttle was used, as they conducted every thread of the woof by their fingers. That some such instrument as the shuttle was in use from time immemorial, there can be no doubt: and it is certain that such an... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 7:1-3

The days of a hireling. Job compares himself to a mercenary in war and to a hired servant at work. As these men have little interest in what they are doing, partly because the masters who hire them take little interest in them, Job feels his life but a weariness, and longs for the term of his service to expire. I. LIFE MAY APPEAR LIKE THE DAYS OF A HIRELING . 1 . It involves hard toil. The lot of most men is not easy; but some find life a grinding servitude. 2 .... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 7:1-6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 7:1-3

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