约伯记 7:2-5 CUNPSS

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 7:2

As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow ,.... Either the shadow of some great rock, tree, or hedge, or any shady place to shelter him from the heat of the sun in the middle of the day, which in those eastern countries is hot and scorching; and very burdensome and fatiguing it is for servants and labourers to work in fields and vineyards, or in keeping herds and flocks in such countries, and at such a time of the day; to which the allusion is in Song of Solomon 1:7 Isaiah 25:4 .... 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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:2

Earnestly desireth the shadow - As a man who labors hard in the heat of the day earnestly desires to get under a shade, or wishes for the long evening shadows, that he may rest from his labor, get his day's wages, retire to his food, and then go to rest. Night is probably what is meant by the shadow; as in Virgil, Aen. iv., ver. 7: Humentemque Aurora polo dimoverat Umbram . "The morning had removed the humid shadow, i.e., night, from the world." Where Servius justly observes: ... 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

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 7:2

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:2

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 7:1-3

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