Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 7:15
So that my soul (k) chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.
(k) He speaks as one overcome with sorrow, and not of judgment, or of the examination of his faith.
So that my soul (k) chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.
(k) He speaks as one overcome with sorrow, and not of judgment, or of the examination of his faith.
Verse Job 7:15. _CHOOSETH STRANGLING_] It is very likely that he felt, in those interrupted and dismal slumbers, an oppression and difficulty of breathing something like the _incubus_ or _nightmare_;...
SO THAT MY SOUL - So that I; the soul being put for himself. CHOOSETH STRANGLING - Dr. Good renders it “suffocation,” and supposes that Job alludes to the oppression of breathing, produced by what is...
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...
RATHER THAN MY LIFE. by mine [own] hands. LIFE. bones, or limbs: i.e. hands....
Consequence of the preceding, Job 7:14. _chooseth strangling_ A sense of choking is one of the accompaniments of the disease, which is said to end sometimes in actual suffocation. Job refers to this s...
SO THAT MY SOUL CHOOSETH STRANGLING, &C.— _My soul therefore chooseth strangling; death rather than the recovery of my health._ Heath. But Houbigant renders it thus: _Yet thou preservest me from a vio...
6. He finds no mercy, neither from God or from his friends. (Job 7:11-15) TEXT 7:11-15 11 THEREFORE I WILL NOT REFRAIN MY MONTH; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bit...
_SO THAT MY SOUL CHOOSETH STRANGLING, AND DEATH RATHER THAN MY LIFE._ My soul chooseth strangling. Umbreit translate, 'So that I could wish to strangle myself-dead by my own hands.' He softens this i...
JOB'S FIRST SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny....
STRANGLING] or, suffocation. Job longs for the arrival of this sign of approaching death. MY LIFE] RV '_these_ my bones.' He was reduced to a skeleton. Possibly we should read 'my pains.'...
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...
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...
SO THAT MY SOUL MAKETH choice of strangling and death rather than a life like this. Literally, _than these my bones,_ or, as some take it, _a death by these my members:_ a death inflicted by myself, s...
וַ תִּבְחַ֣ר מַחֲנָ֣ק נַפְשִׁ֑י מָ֝֗וֶת מֵֽ ע
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...
Hanging. Protestants, "strangling and death, rather than my life," or Marginal note, "bones." (Haydock) --- Any species of Death would be preferable to this misery. (Calmet) --- Who would not entertai...
(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...
SO THAT MY SOUL CHOOSETH STRANGLING,.... Not to strangle himself, as Ahithophel did, or to be strangled by others, this being a kind of death inflicted on capital offenders; but rather, as Mr. Brought...
So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life. Ver. 15. _So that my soul chooseth strangling_] _i.e._ _Quamvis durissimam sed praesentissimam mortem,_ any violent or ignominiou...
_So that my soul chooseth strangling_ The most violent death, so it be but certain and sudden, rather than such a wretched life. Hebrews מעצמותי, _megnatsmothai, rather than my bones_ That is, than my...
so that my soul chooseth strangling, in wishing that the asthma which accompanied his illness might choke him, AND DEATH RATHER THAN MY LIFE, literally, "than these bones," that is, in preference to h...
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...
THEN MY LIFE: _ Heb._ then my bones...
"SO THAT MY SOUL WOULD CHOOSE SUFFOCATION, DEATH RATHER THAN MY PAINS": Job again expresses his desire to end his life-yet he never makes any effort to actually take his life. Even while enduring inte...
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...
CHOOSETH; not simply and in itself, but comparatively, rather than such a wretched life. STRANGLING; the most violent, so it be but a certain and sudden death. RATHER THAN MY LIFE, Heb. _than my bones...
Job 7:15 soul H5315 chooses H977 (H8799) strangling H4267 death H4194 body H6106 chooseth - 2 Sam
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...
2 Samuel 17:23; Matthew 27:5...