George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 7:9
Hell, or the grave. (Menochius) --- He was convinced of the resurrection. But he meant that, according to the natural course, we can have no means of returning to this world after we are dead.
Hell, or the grave. (Menochius) --- He was convinced of the resurrection. But he meant that, according to the natural course, we can have no means of returning to this world after we are dead.
Verse Job 7:9. As _THE CLOUD IS CONSUMED_] As the cloud is dissipated, so is the breath of those that go down to the grave. As that cloud shall never return, so shall it be with the dead; they return...
AS THE CLOUD IS CONSUMED AND VANISHETH AWAY - This image is taken from the light and fleecy clouds, which become smaller and smaller until they wholly vanish. For an illustration of a similar phrase,...
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 complains of the misery of his life and destiny. How is it that Job does not go on to maintain his innocence? Instead of this he proceeds to show how dreadfully he suffers, and to accuse God of cr...
THE GRAVE. Hebrew. _Sheol._ See App-35....
_goeth down to the grave_ Heb., _down to She"ôl_, the place of departed persons. This is never in the Old Testament confounded with the grave, although, being an ideal place and state, the imagination...
THAT MY LIFE IS WIND— _That my life is but empty breath._ Houbigant. It is easy to observe, in almost all Job's speeches, the struggle which he laboured under, between an earnest desire of death, as a...
5. God decrees what man receives. (Job 7:1-10) TEXT 7:1-10 7 IS THERE NOT A WARFARE TO MAN UPON EARTH? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? 2 As a servant that earnestly desireth the...
_AS THE CLOUD IS CONSUMED AND VANISHETH AWAY: SO HE THAT GOETH DOWN TO THE GRAVE SHALL COME UP NO MORE._ (2 Samuel 12:23). David as to his child, "I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. T...
7:9 Sheol (e-13) See Psalms 6:5 ....
JOB'S FIRST SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny....
GRAVE] better, as RV, 'Sheol,' the place of the departed: see on Job 3:15. Note how hopeless is the outlook here and elsewhere towards the future. 11-21. He appeals to God, complaining of the undeser...
Job had many wrong ideas about death. He thought that a man was like a cloud. A cloud simply disappears. So, Job thought that a man could not live after his death. Job even thought that God could not...
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...
AS THE CLOUD IS CONSUMED. — It is a fine simile that man is as evanescent as a cloud; and very apt is the figure, because, whether it vanishes on the surface of the sky or is distributed in rain, noth...
כָּלָ֣ה עָ֭נָן וַ יֵּלַ֑ךְ כֵּ֥ן יֹורֵ֥ד שְׁ֝
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...
(e) [As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall (f) come up no [more]. (e) If you behold me in your anger I will not be able to stand in your presence. (f...
(7) В¶ O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. (8) The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. (9) As the cloud is consumed a...
_A VAPOUR THAT VANISHETH AWAY_ ‘As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.’ Job 7:9 It is thus that man’s soul is at once darkened and ag...
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...
[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 t...
Job 7:9 [As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more]. Ver. 9. _As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away_] A cloud is nothing else but a...
_As the cloud is consumed_ Being dissolved by the heat of the sun. _And vanisheth away_ Never to return again. _So he that goeth down, &c., shall come up no more_ Never until the general resurrection....
JOB ARRAIGNS GOD...
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, the vapor disappearing in the dry air of the wilderness, SO HE THAT GOETH DOWN TO THE GRAVE SHALL COME UP NO MORE, if he is once in the realm of the dead,...
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...
"WHEN. CLOUD VANISHES, IT IS GONE": Job's life was as temporary as. cloud, compare with James 4:13ff. JOB 7:9 "SO HE WHO GOES DOWN TO SHEOL DOES NOT COME UP": He would go to Sheol, the place of the de...
7-16 Plain truths as to the shortness and vanity of man's life, and the certainty of death, do us good, when we think and speak of them with application to ourselves. Dying is done but once, and ther...
THE CLOUD IS CONSUMED; being dried up or dissolved by the heat of the sun. VANISHETH AWAY; never returneth again. SHALL COME UP NO MORE, to live a natural, mortal life amongst men. For that he doth no...
Job 7:9 cloud H6051 disappears H3615 (H8804) vanishes H3212 (H8799) down H3381 (H8802) grave H7585 up...
GRAVE Hebrew, "Sheol." (Habakkuk 2:5). (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
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...
_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...
2 Samuel 12:23; 2 Samuel 14:14; Isaiah 38:11; Job 10:21; Job 14:10;
No more — Never until the general resurrection. When we see a cloud which looked great, as if it would eclipse the sun, of a sudden dispersed and disappearing, say, Just such a thing is the life of ma...
Does this verse contradict the Bible’s teaching about resurrection? PROBLEM: The Scriptures teach that all people will be raised bodily from the tomb (cf. Daniel 12:2; 1 Corinthians 15:22; Revelation...