Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Job 7:8
are upon me, and I am not Perhaps rather, shall be upon me and I shall not be; God will look for him, enquiring, it may be, after the work of His hands, but he shall be gone; cf. Job 7:21.
are upon me, and I am not Perhaps rather, shall be upon me and I shall not be; God will look for him, enquiring, it may be, after the work of His hands, but he shall be gone; cf. Job 7:21.
Verse Job 7:8. _SHALL SEE ME NO_ MORE] If I die in my present state, with all this load of undeserved odium which is cast upon me by my friends, I shall never have an opportunity of vindicating my cha...
THE EYE OF HIM THAT HATH SEEN ME SHALL SEE ME NO MORE - I shall be cut off from all my friends - one of the things which most distresses people when they come to die. THINE EYES ARE UPON ME, AND I AM...
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...
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...
_THE EYE OF HIM THAT HATH SEEN ME SHALL SEE ME NO MORE: THINE EYES ARE UPON ME, AND I AM NOT._ The eye of him hath seen, who beholds me [present, not past, as English version] - i:e., in the very act...
JOB'S FIRST SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny....
THINE EYES, etc.] render, 'Thine (God's) eyes shall look for me, but I shall be no more.'...
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...
SHALL SEE ME NO MORE. — That is, _thine own eyes shall look for me, but I shall be no more._ So LXX. and Vulg....
לֹֽא ־תְ֭שׁוּרֵנִי עֵ֣ין רֹ֑אִי עֵינֶ֖יךָ בִּ֣י...
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...
_Eyes, in anger, (Calmet) or thy mercy will come too late when I shall be no more._...
(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...
THE EYE OF HIM THAT HATH SEEN ME SHALL SEE ME NO [MORE],.... Or "the eye of sight" e; the seeing eye, the most acute and quick sighted eye; so Mr. Broughton renders it, "the quick eye" f: this is to b...
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no [more]: thine eyes [are] upon me, and I [am] not. Ver. 8. _The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more_] In death we shall neither see nor b...
_O remember_ He turns his speech to God; perhaps observing that his friends grew weary of hearing it. If men will not hear us, God will: if men cannot help us, he can: for his arm is not shortened, ne...
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more, he would soon pass from the circle of those whom he had formerly considered his friends; THINE EYES ARE UPON ME, namely, those of the Lord, and I...
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...
I AM NOT: That is, I can live no longer...
"THE EYE OF HIM WHO SEES ME WILL BEHOLD ME NO LONGER; YOUR EYES WILL BE ON ME, BUT. WILL NOT BE": Is Job saying that God would no longer see him or is he saying that his life was so short that people...
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...
SHALL SEE ME NO MORE in this mortal state; I shall never return to this life again. THINE EYES ARE UPON ME, AND I AM NOT: either, 1. If thou dost but east one angry look upon me, _I am not_, i.e. I am...
Job 7:8 eye H5869 sees H7210 see H7789 (H8799) eyes H5869 The eye - Job 20:9;...
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 13:27; Job 14:3; Job 20:9; Job 7:21; Psalms 37:36;...
No more — In this mortal state: I shall never return to this life again. Am not — If thou cast one angry look upon me, I am not; thou canst look me into eternity....