Job 7:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? ”

Job 7:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

How long wilt thou not depart? - How long is this to continue? The same word occurs in Job 14:6 . The word rendered “depart” שׁעה shâ‛âh means to look, to look around, and then to look awa...
Job 7:19 - 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...
Job 7:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? Till I swallow down my spittle? - This is a proverbial expression, and exists among the Arabs to the present da...
Job 7:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

How long wilt thou not depart from me?— Literally, How long wilt thou not take thine eyes off me? This is a metaphor borrowed from combatants, who never take their eyes off from their antagonists...
Job 7:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? How long (like a jealous keeper) Wilt thou never look away [shaa`aach, for depart] from me, nor let...
Job 7:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's First Speech (concluded) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny.
Job 7:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Till I swallow down my spittle. — This is doubtless a proverbial expression, like “the twinkling of an eye,” or “while I fetch a breath.”
Job 7:19 - 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...
Job 7:19 - 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...
Job 7:19 - 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...
Job 7:19 - 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? (...
Job 7:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

How long wilt thou not depart from me ,.... From wrestling and contending with him, and afflicting of him; the Lord was too hard a combatant for job, and therefore he chose to be rid of him, and was...
Job 7:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? Ver. 19. How long wilt thou not depart from me ] Here he seems desirous to be rid of God's company, of his a...
Job 7:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

How long wilt thou not depart from me How long will it be ere thou withdraw thy afflicting hand from me? The Hebrew is literally, How long wilt thou not take thine eyes off me? “This,” says Dodd, “...
Job 7:19 - 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...
Job 7:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? 18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? 19 H...
Job 7:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

How long will it be ere thou withdraw thy afflicting hand from me? Till I swallow down my spittle, i.e. for a little time; or that I may have a breathing time: a proverbial expression, like that Sp...
Job 7:19 - 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...
Job 7:19 - 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...
Job 7:19 - 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...
Job 7:19 - 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...
Job 7:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Arraigns God
Job 7:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 9:18 ; Psalms 13:1-3 ; Psalms 6:3 ; Psalms 94:3 ; Revelation 6:10
Job 7:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

How long — How long will it be ere thou withdraw thy afflicting hand? Swallow — That I may have a breathing time: a proverbial expression.

Job 7:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 7:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 7:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 7:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 7:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 7:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 7:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 7:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 7:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 7:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 7:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 7:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 7:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 7:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 7:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 7:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 7:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 7:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 7:19 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Job 7:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 7:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 7:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 7:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 7:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes