Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Job 7:19
Till I swallow down my spittle. — This is doubtless a proverbial expression, like “the twinkling of an eye,” or “while I fetch a breath.”
Till I swallow down my spittle. — This is doubtless a proverbial expression, like “the twinkling of an eye,” or “while I fetch a breath.”
Verse Job 7:19. _TILL I SWALLOW DOWN MY SPITTLE?_] This is a proverbial expression, and exists among the Arabs to the present day; the very language being nearly the same. It signifies the same as, _...
HOW LONG WILT THOU NOT DEPART? - How long is this to continue? The same word occurs in Job 14:6. The word rendered “depart” שׁעה _shâ‛âh_ means to look, to look around, and then to look away from an...
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 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...
Second, Job asks, If man be not too mean a thing for God thus to busy Himself with and persecute? cf. ch. Job 14:3. _set thine heart_ that is, thy _mind_; as _magnify_means, to think great, to consid...
_depart from me_ lit. _look away from me_; an impatient demand that God would turn away His plaguing glance; cf. "watcher of men," Job 7:20. _swallow down my spittle_ A proverbial phrase like "twinkli...
HOW LONG WILT THOU NOT DEPART FROM ME?— Literally, _How long wilt thou not take thine eyes off me?_ This is a metaphor borrowed from combatants, who never take their eyes off from their antagonists. T...
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...
_HOW LONG WILT THOU NOT DEPART FROM ME, NOR LET ME ALONE TILL I SWALLOW DOWN MY SPITTLE?_ How long (like a jealous keeper) WILT THOU never look away [shaa`aach, for depart] from me, nor let me alon...
TILL I SWALLOW, etc.] i.e. for a moment....
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...
God watches us, because he cares about us. He is always helping us. If God did not watch us, we would die immediately. See Job 34:14-15. But Job wanted to die (verse 15)....
כַּ֭ מָּה לֹא ־תִשְׁעֶ֣ה מִמֶּ֑נִּי לֹֽא ־תַ֝
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...
(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...
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...
HOW LONG WILT THOU NOT DEPART FROM ME,.... From wrestling and contending with him, and afflicting of him; the Lord was too hard a combatant for job, and therefore he chose to be rid of him, and was im...
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? Ver. 19. _How long wilt thou not depart from me_] Here he seems desirous to be rid of God's company, of his aff...
_How long wilt thou not depart from me_ How long will it be ere thou withdraw thy afflicting hand from me? The Hebrew is literally, How long wilt thou not take thine eyes off me? “This,” says Dodd, “i...
How long wilt Thou not depart from me, looking away from him, turning His attention to some other object upon which He might vent His wrath, NOR LET ME ALONE TILL I SWALLOW DOWN MY SPITTLE, at least f...
JOB ARRAIGNS GOD...
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...
"WILL YOU NEVER TURN YOUR GAZE AWAY FROM ME, NOR LET ME ALONE UNTIL. SWALLOW MY SPITTLE?" Job feels that he cannot get away from God's hostile watchfulness, even for. moment. God will not even turn aw...
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...
How long will it be ere thou withdraw thy afflicting hand from me? TILL I SWALLOW DOWN MY SPITTLE, i.e. for a little time; or that I may have a breathing time: a proverbial expression, like that Spani...
Job 7:19 long H4100 away H8159 (H8799) alone H7503 (H8686) swallow H1104 (H8800) saliva H7536 How long -...
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 9:18; Psalms 13:1; Psalms 6:3; Psalms 94:3; Revelation 6:10...
How long — How long will it be ere thou withdraw thy afflicting hand? Swallow — That I may have a breathing time: a proverbial expression....