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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 7:7-16

Job, observing perhaps that his friends, though they would not interrupt him in his discourse, yet began to grow weary, and not to heed much what he said, here turns to God, and speaks to him. If men will not hear us, God will; if men cannot help us, he can; for his arm is not shortened, neither is his ear heavy. Yet we must not go to school to Job here to learn how to speak to God; for, it must be confessed, there is a great mixture of passion and corruption in what he here says. But, if God... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:12

Am I a sea, or a whale ,.... Like the restless sea, to which very wicked, profligate, and abandoned sinners are compared, that are continually casting up the mire and dirt of sin and wickedness; am I such an one? or like the raging sea, its proud waters and foaming waves, to which fierce and furious persecutors and tyrannical oppressors are compared; did I behave in such a manner to the poor and distressed in the time of prosperity? nay, was I not the reverse of all this, kind and gentle... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:13

When I say, my bed shall comfort me ,.... When he thought within himself that he would lie down upon his bed and try if he could get a little sleep, which might comfort and refresh him, and which he promised himself he should obtain by this means, as he had formerly had an experience of: my couch shall ease my complaint ; he concluded, that by lying down upon his couch, and falling asleep, it would give some ease of body and mind; that his body would, at least, for some time be free from... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:14

Then thou scarest me with dreams ,.... Not with dreams and visions being told him, as were by Eliphaz, Job 4:13 ; but with dreams he himself dreamed; and which might arise from the force of his distemper, and the pain of his body, whereby his sleep was broken, his imagination disturbed, and his fancy roving, which led him to objects as seemed to him very terrible and dreadful; or from a melancholy disposition his afflictions had brought upon him; and hence in his dreams he had dismal... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:15

So that my soul chooseth strangling ,.... Not to strangle himself, as Ahithophel did, or to be strangled by others, this being a kind of death inflicted on capital offenders; but rather, as Mr. Broughton renders it, "to be choked to death" by any distemper and disease, as some are of a suffocating nature, as a catarrh, quinsy, &c.; and kill in that way; and indeed death in whatsoever way is the stopping of a man's breath; and it was death that Job chose, let it be in what way it would,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:16

I loathe it ,.... Or "them" F11 "Aspernor vitam", Piscator; so Jarchi & Ben Gersom. , either his life, which was a weariness to him, or his bones, which were so painful and nauseous; or rather, "I am become loathsome", to himself, to his servants, and to his friends, and even his breath was strange to his wife; or "being ulcerated, I pine and waste away" F12 מאסתי "tabui", Cocceius; "ulceratus tabesco", Schultens. , and must in course be quickly gone: I would not live... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:12

Am I a sea, or a whale - " Am I condemned as the Egyptians were who were drowned in the Red Sea? or am I as Pharaoh, who was drowned in it in his sins, that thou settest a keeper over me?" Targum. Am I as dangerous as the sea, that I should be encompassed about with barriers, lest I should hurt mankind? Am I like an ungovernable wild beast or dragon, that I must be put under locks and bars? I think our own version less exceptionable than any other hitherto given of this verse. The meaning is... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:14

Thou sparest me with dreams - There is no doubt that Satan was permitted to haunt his imagination with dreadful dreams and terrific appearances; so that, as soon as he fell asleep, he was suddenly roused and alarmed by those appalling images. He needed rest by sleep, but was afraid to close his eyes because of the horrid images which were presented to his imagination. Could there be a state more deplorable than this? read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:15

Chooseth strangling - It is very likely that he felt, in those interrupted and dismal slumbers, an oppression and difficulty of breathing something like the incubus or nightmare; and, distressing as this was, he would prefer death by this means to any longer life in such miseries. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:16

I loathe it; I would not live alway - Life, in such circumstances, is hateful to me; and though I wish for long life, yet if length of days were offered to me with the sufferings which I now undergo, I would despise the offer and spurn the boon. Mr. Good is not satisfied with our common version, and has adopted the following, which in his notes he endeavors to illustrate and defend: Job 7:15 ; So that my soul coveteth suffocation, And death in comparison with my suffering. Job 7:16... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 7:7-16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:16

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