“ I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. ”
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 thi...
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.
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...
loathe [it] . loathe [life], Job 7:16 is parenthetical, being the thought of suicide, which intrudes itself upon him.
I loathe it ; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. I loathe it; I would not live alway - Life, in such circumstances, is hateful to me; and though I wish for long life, ye...
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. Vani...
Job's First Speech (concluded) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny.
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 co...
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? (...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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 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 patriarch...
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...
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...
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
1 Kings 19:4 ; Ecclesiastes 6:11 ; Ecclesiastes 6:12 ; Genesis 27:46 ; Job 10:1 ; Job 10:20 ; Job 14:6 ; Job 3:20-22 ; Job 6:9 ; Jonah 4:3 ; Jonah 4:8 ; Psalms 144:4 ; Psalms 39:10 ; Ps...