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Job 7:10
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place, his home, know him any more, this earthly life is past forever, so far as he is concerned.
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place, his home, know him any more, this earthly life is past forever, so far as he is concerned.
Verse Job 7:10. _HE SHALL RETURN NO MORE TO HIS HOUSE, NEITHER SHALL_ _HIS PLACE KNOW HIM ANY MORE._] He does not mean that he shall be _annihilated_ but that he shall never more become an inhabitant...
HE SHALL RETURN NO MORE TO HIS HOUSE - He shall not revisit his family. Job is dwelling on the calamity of death, and one of the circumstances most deeply felt in the prospect of death is, that a man...
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...
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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...
_HE SHALL RETURN NO MORE TO HIS HOUSE, NEITHER SHALL HIS PLACE KNOW HIM ANY MORE._ Return to more - (Psalms 103:16). The Oriental keenly loves his dwelling. In Arabian elegies the desertion of abodes...
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 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...
NEITHER SHALL HIS PLACE... — This language is imitated in Psalms 103:16. We need not force these words too much, as though they forbad our ascribing to Job any belief in a future life or in the resurr...
לֹא ־יָשׁ֣וּב עֹ֣וד לְ בֵיתֹ֑ו וְ לֹא
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...
_More. This may be explained both of the soul and of the body, Psalm cii. 16. The former resides in the body for a short time, and then seems to take no farther notice of it (Calmet) till the resurrec...
(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...
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...
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...
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. Ver. 10. _He shall return no more to his house_] Either to despatch business or to enjoy comforts; he hath utterly don...
_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....
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...
"HE WILL NOT RETURN AGAIN TO HIS HOUSE, NOR WILL HIS PLACE KNOW HIM ANYMORE": Job is not saying that the dead cease to exist, but rather that they are completely removed from this earthly life...
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...
HE SHALL RETURN NO MORE, to enjoy his house and possessions again; he shall no more be seen and known in his former habitation and condition by his friends and neighbours. The PLACE put for the men of...
Job 7:10 return H7725 (H8799) house H1004 place H4725 know H5234 (H8686) shall return - Job 8:18,...
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...
Job 20:9; Job 8:18; Psalms 103:16...
Any more — He shall no more be seen and known in his former habitation. It concerns us to secure a better place when we die: for this will own us no more....