Job 7:6-10 NIV

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

Matthew Henry

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 7:6

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

John Gill

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

O remember that my life is wind ,.... Or, "breath" F3 רוח "hali us", Cocceius, Michaelis. ; man's life is in his breath, and that breath is in his nostrils, and therefore not to be accounted of, or depended on; man appears by this to be a poor frail creature, whose life, with respect to himself, is very precarious and uncertain; it is but as a "vapour", an air bubble, full of wind, easily broken and dissipated, and soon vanishes away; it is like the "wind", noisy and blusterous,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:8

The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more ,.... Or "the eye of sight" F5 עין ראי Heb. "oculus visus", Drusius, Piscator; "aspectus", Mercerus; so Simeon Bar Tzemach. ; the seeing eye, the most acute and quick sighted eye; so Mr. Broughton renders it, "the quick eye" F6 "Ocuium perspicacissimum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. : this is to be understood as "after" F7 Posthac, Tigurine version. death, that then the sharpest eye should not see him, he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:9

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away ,.... Which being dispersed by the wind, or broke up by the sun, is never seen, or returns more; for though the wise man speaks of clouds returning after the rain, this is not to be understood of the same clouds, but of succeeding ones, Ecclesiastes 12:2 ; so pardon of sin is expressed by the same metaphor, to show that sin thereby is no more, no more to be seen or remembered, Isaiah 43:25 ; the Targum renders it "as smoke", by which the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:10

He shall return no more to his house ,.... In a literal sense, built or hired by him, or however in which he dwelt; and if a good man, he will have no desire to return to that any more, having a better house, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens; or in a figurative sense, either his body, the earthly house of his tabernacle, an house of clay, which has its foundation in the dust; to this he shall not return until the resurrection, when it will be rebuilt, and fitted up for... 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

Adam Clarke

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

My life is wind - Mr. Good translates, "O remember that, if my life pass away, mine eye shall turn no more to scenes of goodness;" which he paraphrases thus: "O remember that, if my life pass away, never more shall I witness those scenes of Divine favor, never more adore thee for those proofs of unmerited mercy, which till now have been so perpetually bestowed on me." I think the common translation gives a very good sense. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:8

Shall see me no more - If I die in my present state, with all this load of undeserved odium which is cast upon me by my friends, I shall never have an opportunity of vindicating my character, and regaining the good opinion of mankind. Thine eyes are upon one, and I am not - Thou canst look me into nothing. Or, Let thine eye be upon me as judged to death, and I shall immediately cease to live among men. read more

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

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

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 7:10

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:8

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