A graphic account of his condition under his malady. Job 7:4 should probably be rendered,
When I lie down I say, When shall I arise?
And the night stretches out, and I am full of tossings, &c.
At evening he longs for morning (Deuteronomy 28:67), but the night seems to him to prolong itself, and he tosses restlessly till the daybreak.
Verse Job 7:4. _WHEN I LIE DOWN_] I have so little rest, that when I do lie down I long for the return of the light, that I may rise. Nothing can better depict the state of a man under continual affl...
WHEN I LIE DOWN - I find no comfort and no rest on my bed. My nights are long, and I am impatient to have them passed, and equally so is it with the day. This is a description which all can understand...
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...
DAWNING. Hebrew. _nesheph._. Homonym, having two meanings: (1) as here, daylight; (2) darkness. See notes on 1 Samuel 30:17. 2Ki 7:5, 2 Kings 7:7....
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...
_WHEN I LIE DOWN, I SAY, WHEN SHALL I ARISE, AND THE NIGHT BE GONE? AND I AM FULL OF TOSSINGS TO AND FRO UNTO THE DAWNING OF THE DAY._ When shall ... the night - literally, 'When shall be the flight...
JOB'S FIRST SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny....
Job could not sleep by night, because of his pain. Instead, he waited for the dawn. This is very sad. But perhaps Job was starting to have some hope. Daylight begins to shine at dawn. And light has a...
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...
WHEN I LIE DOWN, I SAY. — Or, _When I lie down, then I say, When shall I arise? But the night is long, and I am filled with tossings to and fro till the morning twilight. _...
אִם ־שָׁכַ֗בְתִּי וְ אָמַ֗רְתִּי מָתַ֣י אָ֭קוּם...
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 again. Hebrew, "and the night be completed, I toss to and fro," (Haydock) or "I am disturbed with dreams, (Calmet) till day break." Vulgate insinuates that night and day are equally restless to a...
(1) В¶ Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? (2) As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward o...
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...
WHEN I LIE DOWN, I SAY, WHEN SHALL I ARISE,.... Or, "then I say", c. t that is, as soon as he laid himself down in his bed, and endeavoured to compose himself to sleep, in order to get rest and refres...
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. Ver. 4. _When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? &c._] Here is...
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise and the night be gone? The sleeplessness caused by his terrible illness made him wish that the night would soon flyaway. AND I AM FULL OF TOSSINGS TO AND FRO...
THE GENERAL MISERY OF HUMAN LIFE...
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...
THE NIGHT BE GONE?: _ Heb._ the evening be measured...
1-6 Job here excuses what he could not justify, his desire of death. Observe man's present place: he is upon earth. He is yet on earth, not in hell. Is there not a time appointed for his abode here?...
WHEN I LIE DOWN, to get some rest and sleep. _The night_, Heb. _the evening_; the part put for the whole, as it is GENESIS 1:5. TO AND FRO; from side to side in the bed, as men in grievous pains of bo...
Job 7:4 down H7901 (H8804) say H559 (H8804) arise H6965 (H8799) night H6153 ended H4059 fill H7
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...
_I am made to possess months of vanity._ THE WASTED WEEKS OF SICKNESS “Months of vanity” indicate a protracted time of uselessness, when no good cause is furthered by us, and we ourselves seem rather...
_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...
Deuteronomy 28:67; Isaiah 54:11; Job 17:12; Job 30:17; Job 7:13;...