Job 7:7

Job 7:7 O remember that my life [is] wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

Ver. 7. O remember that my life is wind ] Before, swifter or lighter than a weaver’s shuttle (or than a sword or speech, as the Septuagint there render it, ελαφροτερος λαλιας ), now my life is a wind, or as a wind (so the Chaldee paraphraseth), that speedily passeth away, and returneth not. So St James, "What is your life?" saith he; "it is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away," James 4:14 . One hath well observed, that the Holy Ghost giveth us very many items of this (and especially in this book), which shows that we are very apt to forget it. A point that is easy to be known, but very hard to be believed; every man assents to it, but few live it, and improve it to reformation.

Mine eyes shall no more see good ] sc. In this world, for in the world to come he was confident of the beautiful vision, Job 19:27 . Hezekiah hath a like expression when sentenced to die: I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living (that is, in this life present, Psalms 27:13 ; Psalms 52:5 ; Psalms 142:5 ; Isaiah 53:8 , called also the light of the living, Joh 9:5 Psa 56:13 ); I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world, Isaiah 38:11 . And this both sick Job and sick Hezekiah tell the Lord, and both of them begin alike, O remember, Isaiah 38:3 . God forgetteth not his people and their condition; howbeit he requireth and expecteth that they should be his remembrancers for their own and others’ good, Isaiah 62:6-7 . See the margin.