Man's life is a lot of hardship. Appointed time] RM 'time of service.'
2, 3. As the labourer longs for the weary day to end and to receive his wages, so Job bemoans the length of his sufferings and sighs for death to end them.
CHAPTER VII _Job continues to deplore his helpless and afflicted state_, 1-6. _He expostulates with God concerning his afflictions_, 7-12; _describes the disturbed state of his mind by visions in t...
IS THERE NOT AN APPOINTED TIME TO MAN UPON EARTH? - Margin, or, warfare. The word used here צבא _tsâbâ'_ means properly a host, an army, see the notes, Isaiah 1:9; then it means warfare, or the hard...
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...
IS THERE NOT. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. AN APPOINTED TIME. a warfare. Compare Job 14:14. MAN. mortal man. ARE NOT. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._...
The connexion is with the preceding verses ch. Job 6:28-30, which express the thought of Job's innocence, and the thought that in spite of his innocence he is miserably plagued. Under this feeling he...
DISCOURSE: 456 MAN’S TIME ON EARTH FIXED Job 7:1. _Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?_ THE precise connexion of these words is not v...
_JOB GOES ON TO POUR OUT HIS LAMENTATIONS IN THE MOST PATHETIC MANNER, AND EXPOSTULATES WITH GOD, PRAYING TO BE SPEEDILY RELEASED FROM HIS MISERIES; OR THAT GOD WOULD GRANT HIM SOME LITTLE RESPITE, TI...
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...
_IS THERE NOT AN APPOINTED TIME TO MAN UPON EARTH? ARE NOT HIS DAYS ALSO LIKE THE DAYS OF AN HIRELING?_ Appointed time - better, warfare х_ TSAABAA'_ (H6635)], hard conflict with evils (so in Isaiah...
7:1 man (d-3) _ Enosh_ , and so ver. 17, and ch. 9.2. see Psalms 8:4 ....
A worker waits to receive his wages for his day’s work. But Job thought that he would receive no reward for his good deeds. A slave waits for the evening, when he can sleep. His master cannot control...
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...
הֲ לֹא ־צָבָ֣א לֶ אֱנֹ֣ושׁ _עֲלֵי_† ־אָ֑רֶץ...
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...
[Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an (a) hireling? (a) Has not a hired servant some rest and ease? Then in this my continual torment I am wo...
Warfare. Hebrew, "is it not determined" (Haydock) for some short space, as the Levites had to serve from 30 to 50 years of age; (Numbers iv. 3., and viii. 25.) and the days of a hireling are also defi...
CONTENTS Job prosecutes the same subject in this Chapter as in the former. He is looking forward to death and the grave, as the period of repose from his troubles. He is partly speaking to his friend...
(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...
[IS THERE] NOT AN APPOINTED TIME TO MAN UPON EARTH?.... There is a set time for his coming into the world, for his continuance in it, and for his going out of it; this is to man "on earth", with respe...
Job 7:1 [Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an hireling? Ver. 1. _Is there not an appointed time to man upon the earth?_] There is, certainly....
_Is there not_, &c. Job is here excusing what he cannot justify, his passionate longing for death. _An appointed time for man upon earth_ Hebrews צבא, _tzaba, a warfare;_ or, time of warfare. The Targ...
THE GENERAL MISERY OF HUMAN LIFE...
Is there not an appointed time, warfare, a fixed and wearing service, TO MAN UPON EARTH? ARE NOT HIS DAYS ALSO LIKE THE DAYS OF AN HIRELING, one who works for wages? The figure is that of a man drafte...
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...
AN APPOINTED TIME: Or, a warfare...
"IS NOT MAN FORCED TO LABOR ON EARTH, AND ARE NOT HIS DAYS LIKE THE DAYS OF. HIRED MAN?": "Job says that man is like. hired hand, destined to hard labor, like. slave who works in the hot sun and longs...
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?...
JOB CHAPTER 7 Our times are like those of hirelings, restless and hopeless. Death desirable. His days are as a weaver's shuttle; his life is as wind; and he was consumed out of this world, and should...
Job 7:1 time H6635 man H582 earth H776 days H3117 days H3117 man H7916 Is there - Job 14:5,...
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...
_Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?_ AN APPOINTED TIME I. The nature of the fact which is here affirmed. 1. That the existence of man will be terminated by death. When sin was commit...
_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 15:18; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Isaiah 21:16; Isaiah 38:5; J
Is there not — Job is here excusing what he cannot justify, his passionate longing for death. A time — Is there not a time limited by God, wherein man shall live in this sinful, and miserable world? A...