“ O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. ”
O remember - This is evidently an address to God. In the anguish of his soul Job turns his eye and his heart to his Maker, and urges reasons why he should close his life. The extent of his suffer...
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...
wind. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. My life is wind - Mr. Good translates, "O remember that, if my life pass away, mine eye shall turn no more to scenes of goodness;"...
That my life is wind— That my life is but empty breath. Houbigant. It is easy to observe, in almost all Job's speeches, the struggle which he laboured under, between an earnest desire of death, a...
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. Address to God. Wind, a picture of evanescence. "He remembered that they were but flesh: a wind that passeth away, and comet...
Job's First Speech (concluded) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny.
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...
(7) В¶ 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 is consumed...
O remember that my life [is] wind ,.... Or, "breath" c; man's life is in his breath, and that breath is in his nostrils, and therefore not to be accounted of, or depended on; man appears by this to...
O remember that my life [is] wind: mine eye shall no more see good. Ver. 7. O remember that my life is wind ] Before, swifter or lighter than a weaver's shuttle (or than a sword or speech, as the...
O remember He turns his speech to God; perhaps observing that his friends grew weary of hearing it. If men will not hear us, God will: if men cannot help us, he can: for his arm is not shortened, n...
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...
He turneth his speech to God, as appears from Job 7:8,12,14 . Wind, i.e. vain, Isaiah 47:13 Hosea 8:7 ; quickly passing away, so as never to come again, as is said, Psalms 78:39 . See g...
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 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...
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...
The General Misery of Human Life
Genesis 42:36 ; James 4:14 ; Jeremiah 15:15 ; Job 10:21 ; Job 10:22 ; Job 10:9 ; Nehemiah 1:8 ; Psalms 74:18 ; Psalms 74:22 ; Psalms 78:39 ; Psalms 89:47 ; Psalms 89:50
O — He turns his speech to God. Perhaps observing, that his friends grew weary of hearing it. If men will not hear us, God will: if men cannot help us, he can: for his arm is not shortened, neither...