Job 7:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the nighta be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. ”

• Job 7:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  When I lie down - I find no comfort and no rest on my bed. My nights are long, and I am impatient to have them passed, and equally so is it with the day. This is a description which all can under...

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• Job 7:4 - 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 7:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  dawning. Hebrew. nesheph. . Homonym, having two meanings: (1) as here, daylight; (2) darkness. See notes on 1 Samuel 30:17 . 2Ki 7:5, 2 Kings 7:7 .

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• Job 7:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. When I lie down - I have so little rest, that when I do lie down I...

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• Job 7:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. When shall ... the night - literally, 'When shall be the f...

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• Job 7:4 - 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 7:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  When I lie down, I say. — Or, When I lie down, then I say, When shall I arise? But the night is long, and I am filled with tossings to and fro till the morning twilight.

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• Job 7:4 - 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 7:4 - 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 7:4 - 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 7:4 - 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 7:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  When I lie down, I say, when shall I arise ,.... Or, "then I say", c. t that is, as soon as he laid himself down in his bed, and endeavoured to compose himself to sleep, in order to get rest and ref...

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• Job 7:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. Ver. 4. When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? &c. ] H...

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• Job 7:4 - 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 7:4 - 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 7:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  When I lie down, to get some rest and sleep. The night , Heb. the evening ; the part put for the whole, as it is Genesis 1:5 . To and fro; from side to side in the bed, as men in grievous pa...

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• Job 7:4 - 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 7:4 - 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 7:4 - 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 7:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  I am made to possess months of vanity. The wasted weeks of sickness “Months of vanity” indicate a protracted time of uselessness, when no good cause is furthered by us, and we ourselves seem ra...

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• Job 7:4 - 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 7:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The General Misery of Human Life

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• Job 7:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 28:67 ; Isaiah 54:11 ; Job 17:12 ; Job 30:17 ; Job 7:13 ; Job 7:14 ; Psalms 109:23 ; Psalms 130:6 ; Psalms 6:6 ; Psalms 77:4

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