George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 7:21
Be. He lovingly expostulates with God, and begs that he would hasten his deliverance, lest it should be too late. (Calmet)
Be. He lovingly expostulates with God, and begs that he would hasten his deliverance, lest it should be too late. (Calmet)
Verse Job 7:21. _AND WHY DOST THOU NOT PARDON_] These words are spoken _after the manner of men_. If thou have any design to save me, if I have sinned, why dost thou not pardon my transgression, as t...
AND WHY DOST THOU NOT PARDON MY TRANSGRESSION? - Admitting that I have sinned Job 7:20, yet why dost thou not forgive me? I shall soon pass away from the land of the living. I may be sought but I shal...
CHAPTER S 6-7 JOB'S ANSWER _ 1. His Despair justified by the greatness of his suffering (Job 6:1)_ 2. He requests to be cut off (Job 6:8) 3. He reproacheth his friends (Job 6:14) 4. The misery of...
Job again gives utterance to his complaint. In the previous passage Job's tone, as in Job 3:11, had become quieter, and his complaint almost an elegy on human misery. But now he bursts forth again wit...
TRANSGRESSION. _Hebrew pasha'._ INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avah._...
Third, Job makes the supposition that he has sinned, and asks, how such a thing can affect God? and, why He does not take away his sin instead of plaguing him unto death because of it?...
_seek me in the morning_ Rather, SEEK ME, simply, or, SEEK ME EARNESTLY; the addition "in the morning" (just as "betimes," ch. Job 8:5) rests upon a mistaken etymology. Job concludes his speech by a p...
I HAVE SINNED, &C.— As if he said, "Though I am no such wicked and ungodly wretch as these men imagine me to be, for thou knowest the uprightness of my heart, yet I acknowledge myself a sinner, and hu...
7. To God he addresses some difficult questions. (Job 7:16-21) TEXT 7:16-21 16 I LOATHE _my life;_ I WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAY: Let me alone; for my days are vanity. 17 What Is man, that thou shouldest...
_AND WHY DOST THOU NOT PARDON MY TRANSGRESSION, AND TAKE AWAY MINE INIQUITY? FOR NOW SHALL I SLEEP IN THE DUST; AND THOU SHALT SEEK ME IN THE MORNING, BUT I SHALL NOT BE._ For now, х_ `ATAAH_ (H6258)...
7:21 transgression (b-8) Properly 'audacious sin,' 'rebellion' (against God). as ch 8.4 and 34.37....
IN THE MORNING] RV 'diligently.' Job believes that one day God will turn to him once more in love, but then it will be too late. The faint hope expressed here gradually becomes a conviction: cp. Job 1...
JOB'S FIRST SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny....
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 7 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY T...
Job supposed that God would never excuse Job’s errors. Job thought that, perhaps, God was punishing Job for some evil deed. Job was a good man (Job 1:8). But nobody is perfect (Romans 3:23). However,...
AND WHY DOST THOU NOT PARDON MY TRANSGRESSION? — In Job’s belief, sin was the origin of all disaster, and so he thinks that if he were but pardoned his sorrows would pass away. Our Lord has not discou...
וּ מֶ֤ה ׀ לֹא ־תִשָּׂ֣א פִשְׁעִי֮ וְ תַעֲבִ֪י
VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1; Job 7:1 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own heart because no channel outside self is provided for the hot strea...
LONGING FOR THE EVENING Job 7:1 The servant eagerly longs for the lengthening shadow, which tells him that his day of labor is at an end, and we may allow ourselves to anticipate the hour of our rew...
Without waiting for their reply, Job broke out into a new lamentation, more bitter than the first, for it came out of a heart whose sorrow was aggravated by the misunderstanding of friends. Indeed, it...
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] (o) not [be]. (o) That is, I will b...
REFLECTIONS LET me call upon my own heart, while I call upon the Reader's also, to make the necessary improvements from what this chapter of Job's sufferings affords, as it may suit our own circumstan...
(11) Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. (12) Amos I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? (1...
Job's Answer to Eliphaz I. INTRODUCTION I. Job 7:1 (NKJV) "[Is] [there] not a time of hard service for man on earth? [Are] [not] his days also like the days of a hired man? Job 7:2 Like a servant w...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
AND WHY DOST THOU NOT PARDON MY TRANSGRESSION,.... Or "lift [it] up" d; every sin is a transgression of the law of God, and the guilt of it upon the conscience is a burden too heavy to bear, and the p...
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] not [be]. Ver. 21. _And why dost th...
_Why dost thou not pardon_, &c. Seeing thou art so gracious to others, so ready to preserve and forgive them; why may not I hope for the same favour from thee? _For now shall I sleep in the dust_ If t...
JOB ARRAIGNS GOD...
And why dost Thou not pardon my transgression and take away mine iniquity, pardon his guilt, since the end was now so near? FOR NOW SHALL I SLEEP IN THE DUST; AND THOU SHALT SEEK ME IN THE MORNING, BU...
DOES GOD NOT RECOMPENSE GOOD DEEDS? (vv.1-16) Job's questions in verse 1 indicate why he was so distressed at God's dealings. No doubt too his friends would agree to his questions. "Is there not a t...
"WHY THEN DO YOU NOT PARDON MY TRANSGRESSION AND TAKE AWAY MY INIQUITY? FOR NOW. WILL LIE DOWN IN THE DUST; AND YOU WILL SEEK ME, BUT. WILL NOT BE" Job asks if he has sinned, then why doesn't God forg...
17-21 Job reasons with God concerning his dealings with man. But in the midst of this discourse, Job seems to have lifted up his thoughts to God with some faith and hope. Observe the concern he is in...
Seeing thou art so gracious to others, so ready to preserve and pardon them, why may not I hope for the same favour from thee? If thou dost not speedily help me, it will be too late, I shall be dead,...
Job 7:21 pardon H5375 (H8799) transgression H6588 away H5674 (H8686) iniquity H5771 down H7901 (H8799) dust...
Job was sorely troubled by the cruel speeches of his friends, and he answered them out of the bitterness of his soul. What we are first about to read is a part of his language under those circumstance...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to Eliphaz continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Eliphaz. CONCLUSION: We believe in the sun even when it is hidden behind a cloud, therefore we should not doubt the goodness of God...
Job 7:1. _Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?_ הלא צבא _hela zaba,_ Nonne militia est homini super terra, et sicut dies mercenarii dies ejus? “Is not the life of man a warfare upon the e...
_And why dost Thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity?_ WHY SOME SINNERS ARE NOT PARDONED No man should rest until he is sure that his sin is forgiven. I. I shall first take ou...
_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S SPEECH_ Job ceases to altercate with Eliphaz and to defend himself. Resumes his complaints, and ends by addressing himself to God. I. COMPLAINS OF THE GENERAL LOT OF HUMANITY...
EXPOSITION JOB 7:1 In this chapter Job first bewails his miserable fate, of which he expects no alleviation (verses 1-10); then claims an unlimited right of complaint (verse 11); and finally enters i...
Is there not an appointed time to man upon the earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling? As a servant earnestly desires the shadow (Job 7:1-2), That is, the shadow of the clock going...
1 John 1:9; 1 John 3:5; 2 Samuel 24:10; Daniel 12:2; Ecclesiastes 12:7
Pardon — Seeing thou art so gracious to others, why may not I hope for the same favour from thee? Dust — If thou dost not speedily help me, it will be too late. But I shall not be — It will be to late...