Job 7:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. ”

• Job 7:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  So am I made to possess - Hebrew I am made to inherit. The meaning is, that such sad and melancholy seasons now were his only portion. Months of vanity - That is, months which were destitute...

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• Job 7:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  So am I made to possess (b) months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. (b) My sorrow has continued from month to month, and I have looked for hope in vain.

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• Job 7:3 - 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 7:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. So am I made to possess - But night is no relief to me, it is only a continuance of my anxiety and labor. I am like...

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• Job 7:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  So am I made to possess— So am I made to inherit—and nights of misery are my portion: Heath; who, instead of I am full of tossings, in the next verse, reads, I am tired, or wearied out with...

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• Job 7:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. Months of vanity - comfortless misfortune. "I am made (obliged against my will) to posses" - literally, to...

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• Job 7:3 - 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 7:3 - 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 7:3 - 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 7:3 - 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 7:3 - 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 7:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  So am I made to possess months of vanity ,.... This is not a reddition or application of the above similes of the servant and hireling, Job 7:1 ; for that is to be understood, and to be supplied at...

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• Job 7:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. Ver. 3. So am I made to possess months of vanity ] So, but a great deal worse than so is it with me. The labouri...

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• Job 7:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  So am I made to possess , &c. This word, so , respects not so much the desire of a hired servant, as the cause of it, his hard toil and service. He means, God hath allotted me these painful suf...

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• Job 7:3 - 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 7:3 - 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 7:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  This so respects not so much the desire and expectation of a hired servant, which is expressed Job 7:2 , as the ground and reason of it, which is plainly implied there, to wit, his hard toil and s...

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• Job 7:3 - 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 7:3 - 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 7:3 - 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 7:3 - 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 7:3 - 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 7:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The General Misery of Human Life

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• Job 7:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ecclesiastes 1:14 ; Job 29:2 ; Psalms 39:5 ; Psalms 6:6

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• Job 7:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  So — This so respects not so much the desire of an hired servant, as the ground of it, his hard toil and service. Possess — God, hath given me this as my lot and inheritance. Months — So he calls t...

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