Job 7:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

• Job 7:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Therefore I will not refrain my mouth - The idea in this verse is, “such is my distress at the prospect of dying, that I cannot but express it. The idea of going away from all my comforts, and of...

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• Job 7:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Therefore I will not (g) refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. (g) Seeing I can by no other means comfort myself I will declare my...

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• Job 7:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job again gives utterance to his complaint. In the previous passage Job's tone, as in Job 3:11-19 , had become quieter, and his complaint almost an elegy on human misery. But now he bursts forth aga...

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• Job 7:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  spirit. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.

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• Job 7:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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. Therefore I will not refrain - All is hopeless; I will therefore indulge...

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• Job 7:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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, a...

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• Job 7:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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. Therefore, as such is may hard lot, I will at least have the mel...

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• Job 7:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's First Speech (concluded) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny.

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• Job 7:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1-30 ; Job 7:1-21 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...

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• Job 7:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Longing for the Evening Job 7:1-21 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...

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• Job 7:11 - 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, i...

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• Job 7:11 - 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? (...

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• Job 7:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Therefore I will not refrain my mouth ,.... From speaking and complaining; seeing, besides the common lot of mankind, which is a state of warfare, sorrow, and trouble, and is as much as a man can we...

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• Job 7:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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. Ver. 11. Therefore I will not refrain my mouth ] Heb. I will not proh...

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• Job 7:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Therefore I will not refrain , &c. Since my life is so vain and short, and, when once lost, without all hopes of recovery. I will plead with God for pity before I die; I will not smother my angu...

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• Job 7:11 - L. 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...

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• Job 7:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        7 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...

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• Job 7:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Since my life is by the common condition of mankind so vain and short, and, when once lost, without all hopes of recovery, and withal extremely miserable, I will plead with God for pity and relief be...

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• Job 7:11 - 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 human...

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• Job 7:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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 circumstanc...

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• Job 7:11 - 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 th...

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• Job 7:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 7:1-18 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 fin...

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• Job 7:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Arraigns God

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• Job 7:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 1:10 ; 2 Corinthians 2:4 ; 2 Kings 4:27 ; 2 Kings 4:28 ; Genesis 42:21 ; Isaiah 38:15 ; Isaiah 38:17 ; Job 10:1 ; Job 10:15 ; Job 13:13 ; Job 16:6 ; Job 21:25 ; Job 21:3 ; Job...

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• Job 7:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Therefore — Since my life is so vain and short, and when once lost, without all hopes of recovery. I will plead with God for pity before I die; I will not smother my anguish within my breast, but w...

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