Job 7:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: ”

• Job 7:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  As a servant earnestly desireth - Margin, gapeth after. The word here שׁאף shâ'aph means to breathe hard, to pant, to blow, and then to desire earnestly. The shadow - This may refer eith...

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• Job 7:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job complains of the misery of his life and destiny. How is it that Job does not go on to maintain his innocence? Instead of this he proceeds to show how dreadfully he suffers, and to accuse God of c...

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• Job 7:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the shadow . the shade: i.e. daytime. work. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect), App-6, for the wages or reward gained by work: i.e. evening.

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• Job 7:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: Earnestly desireth the shadow - As a man who labors hard in the heat of the day earnestly desires...

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• Job 7:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  As a servant earnestly desireth, &c.— As a servant panteth for the shade; that is, wherein he may refresh and recruit himself when wearied with labours in the heat of the day. Schultens. Heat...

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• Job 7:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: Earnestly desireth - Hebrew, pants for the (evening) shadow х yish'ap ( H7602 ) tseel...

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• Job 7:2 - 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 7:2 - 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 7:2 - 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 7:2 - 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 7:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) В¶ Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? (2) As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward...

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• Job 7:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow ,.... Either the shadow of some great rock, tree, or hedge, or any shady place to shelter him from the heat of the sun in the middle of the day, which in t...

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• Job 7:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for [the reward of] his work: Ver. 2. As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, &c. ] Heb. Gapeth after, or gaspeth for...

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• Job 7:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow Of the evening, the sun-set, or the night, the time allotted for his rest and repose. For man goeth forth to his labour until the evening, Psalms 104:23...

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• Job 7:2 - 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 7:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job's Reply to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520.       1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth...

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• Job 7:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The shadow, i.e. the sun-set, or the night, the time allotted for his rest and repose, Psalms 104:23 . And why may not I also desire the time of my rest? The reward of his work, Heb. his work...

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• Job 7:2 - 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 7:2 - 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 7:2 - 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 7:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

  As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow. Longing for sunset The title of this sermon is the subject of a picture. The artist shows an overworked and weary slave, earnestly looking to the wes...

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• Job 7:2 - 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 7:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The General Misery of Human Life

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• Job 7:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 24:15 ; James 5:4 ; Jeremiah 6:4 ; Leviticus 19:13 ; Malachi 3:5 ; Psalms 119:131 ; Psalms 143:6

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• Job 7:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Shadow — That is, the sun — set, the time allotted for his rest.

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