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AND THAT THOU SHOULDEST VISIT HIM? - That is, for the purpose of
inflicting pain. This language Job intends undoubtedly to be
applicable to himself, and he asks with impatience why God should take
a p...
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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...
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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...
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EVERY MORNING. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), App-6, put for
all time: i.e. continuously....
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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...
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_AND THAT THOU SHOULDEST VISIT HIM EVERY MORNING, AND TRY HIM EVERY
MOMENT?_
Every morning - with each new day: "All the day long have I been
plagued, and chastened every morning." It is rather "the...
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JOB'S FIRST SPEECH (CONCLUDED)
1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny....
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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...
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God allows our troubles so that we will learn to trust God more
(Hebrews 12:7-11). Later Job realised this (Job 23:10)....
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WHAT IS MAN...? — Here is another point of contact with Psalms 8:5;
but the spirit of the Psalmist was one of devout adoration, whereas
that of Job is one of agony and desperation....
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וַ תִּפְקְדֶ֥נּוּ לִ בְקָרִ֑ים לִ֝
רְגָעִ֗ים...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Suddenly. During his whole life, he is exposed to dangers; (Calmet)
of if, at first, he taste some comfort, that is presently over. The
greatest saints have experienced this treatment. (Haydock)_...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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AND [THAT] THOU SHOULDEST VISIT HIM EVERY MORNING,.... That is,
"daily", continually, as Aben Ezra interprets it; either in a way of
love, grace, and mercy; so God has visited men, by raising up and
s...
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_And [that] thou shouldest visit him every morning, [and] try him
every moment?_
Ver. 18. _That thou shouldest visit him every morning_] Be at so much
pains, as it were, with him, as to chasten him;...
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_And that thou shouldest visit him_ Namely, punish or chastise him, as
the word _visiting_ is often used; _every morning_ That is, every day;
the word morning, which is the beginning of the day, being...
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and that Thou shouldest visit him every morning and try him every
moment, putting his patience and power to a continuous test?...
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JOB ARRAIGNS GOD...
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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...
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"THAT YOU EXAMINE HIM EVERY MORNING AND TRY HIM EVERY MOMENT?" "God,
why are You devoting so much unfriendly attention to man in general,
and specifically to Job? Overbearing inquisitiveness and unrel...
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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...
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VISIT HIM; to wit, punish or chasten him, as the word _to visit_, or
_visiting_, is oft used, as EXODUS 20:5, EXODUS 32:34 34:7. _Every
morning_, i.e. every day. But he mentions the morning, either be...
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Job 7:18 visit H6485 (H8799) morning H1242 test H974 (H8799) moment
H7281
visit - Exodus 20:5,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 7:17 WHAT IS MAN, THAT YOU MAKE SO MUCH OF HIM
echoes Psalms 8:4 (“what is man that you are mindful of him”).
However, where...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Peter 1:7; Daniel 12:10; Deuteronomy 8:16; Exodus 20:5; Exodus 32:34
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And try, &c. — What is man that vain, foolish creature, that thou
shouldest magnify or regard, or visit him, (with thy mercy and
blessings, that thou shouldest so far honour and regard him, as by thy...