“ So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.b ”
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...
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.
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...
rather than my life . by mine [own] hands. life . bones, or limbs: i.e. hands.
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. Chooseth strangling - It is very likely that he felt, in those interrupted and dismal slumbers, an oppression and difficulty of b...
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 fro...
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...
Job's First Speech (concluded) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny.
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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? (...
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. Brou...
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 ignomini...
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 m...
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...
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...
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 m...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Job Arraigns God
2 Samuel 17:23 ; Matthew 27:5