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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Job 7:16

Verse Job 7:16. I loathe it; I would not live alway] Life, in such circumstances, is hateful to me; and though I wish for long life, yet if length of days were offered to me with the sufferings which I now undergo, I would despise the offer and spurn the boon.

Mr. Good is not satisfied with our common version, and has adopted the following, which in his notes he endeavours to illustrate and defend:

Ver. Job 7:15. So that my soul coveteth suffocation,

And death in comparison with my suffering.

Ver. Job 7:16. No longer would I live! O, release me!

How are my days vanity!

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See also Job 7:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I LOATHE IT - I loathe my life as it is now. It has become a burden and I desire to part with it, and to go down to the grave. There is, however, considerable variety in the interpretation of this. No...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    LOATHE [IT]. loathe [life], Job 7:16 is parenthetical, being the thought of suicide, which intrudes itself upon him....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    So keenly does he realize the misery of his condition and the intolerable painfulness of his life, that he breaks out into a passionate cry that he hates and is weary of life _I loathe_it. The object...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _I LOATHE IT; I WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAY: LET ME ALONE; FOR MY DAYS ARE VANITY._ I would not live alway - even if I could. A life of misery like mine is, a thing to be loathed, not desired. VANITY. "Let...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    7:16 breath. (a-17) Or, as often, 'vanity.' see Genesis 4:2 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S FIRST SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'I loathe _my life:_ I would not live alway.' VANITY] RM 'as a breath.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job did not want to suffer always. So, he did not want to live always. He did not realise that nobody suffers in heaven – Revelation 21:4. He did not realise that heaven is like a wonderful party – Is...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I LOATHE IT — _i.e.,_ the thought of self-destruction; or, _I loathe my life;_ or, according to others (see the margin), _I waste away:_ this, however, is perhaps less probable. Then the thought comes...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מָ֭אַסְתִּי לֹא ־לְ עֹלָ֣ם אֶֽחְיֶ֑ה חֲדַ֥ל מ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: (l) let me alone; for my days [are] vanity. (l) Seeing my term of life is so short, let me have some rest and ease....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Hope of surviving this misery. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I LOATHE [IT],.... Or "them" k, either his life, which was a weariness to him, or his bones, which were so painful and nauseous; or rather, "I am become loathsome", to himself, to his servants, and to...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity. Ver. 16. _I loathe it, I would not live alway_] I loathe or abhor it, that is, my life, or I loathe them, that is, my bo...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I loath it_ To wit, my life, last mentioned. _I would not live alway_ In this world, if I might, no not in prosperity; for even such a life is but vanity; much less in this extremity of misery. _Let...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I loathe it, he was disgusted with this life; I WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAY, on account of the unendurable pain which he suffered. LET ME ALONE, he asked God to withdraw His chastening hand from him; FOR MY...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB ARRAIGNS GOD...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "I WASTE AWAY;. WILL NOT LIVE FOREVER. LEAVE ME ALONE, FOR MY DAYS ARE BUT. BREATH": This does not appear to be. desire for God to abandon him spiritually, but for God to stop harassing him physically...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I LOATHE IT, to wit, my life, last mentioned. I would not live alway in this world if I might, no, not in prosperity, for even such a life is but vanity, much less in this extremity of misery. Or, _le...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 7:16 loathe H3988 (H8804) live H2421 (H8799) forever H5769 alone H2308 (H8798) days H3117 breath...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Job 7:16 The peculiar circumstances of Job had, no doubt, something to do with eliciting from him this aspiration, otherwise its spirit would scarcely accord with the general tone of the patriarchs an...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I would not live alway._ LIVING ALWAY We are led to say with Job, “I would not live alway.” I. From the state of things around us. They are subject to dissolution, and are actually dissolving. Eve...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 7:16 I LOATHE MY LIFE. Compare Job 9:21; Job 42:6....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 19:4; Ecclesiastes 6:11; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Genesis 27:46;...

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