Job 7:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. ”

• Job 7:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more - I shall be cut off from all my friends - one of the things which most distresses people when they come to die. Thine eyes are upon me, a...

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• Job 7:8 - 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 7:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more : thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. Shall see me no more - If I die in my present state, with all this load of undeserved odium which is...

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• Job 7:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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...

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• Job 7:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. The eye of him hath seen, who beholds me [present, not past, as English version] - i:e., in the ve...

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• Job 7:8 - 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 7:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Shall see me no more. — That is, thine own eyes shall look for me, but I shall be no more. So LXX. and Vulg.

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• Job 7:8 - 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 7:8 - 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 7:8 - 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 7:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 7:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no [more] ,.... Or "the eye of sight" e; the seeing eye, the most acute and quick sighted eye; so Mr. Broughton renders it, "the quick eye" f: this is t...

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• Job 7:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no [more]: thine eyes [are] upon me, and I [am] not. Ver. 8. The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more ] In death we shall neither see nor...

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• Job 7:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 7:8 - 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 7:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        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...

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• Job 7:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Shall see me no more in this mortal state; I shall never return to this life again. Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not: either, 1. If thou dost but east one angry look upon me, I am not , i....

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• Job 7:8 - 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 7:8 - 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 7:8 - 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 7:8 - 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 7:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The General Misery of Human Life

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• Job 7:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 13:27 ; Job 14:3 ; Job 20:9 ; Job 7:21 ; Psalms 37:36 ; Psalms 39:11 ; Psalms 90:8 ; Psalms 90:9

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• Job 7:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  No more — In this mortal state: I shall never return to this life again. Am not — If thou cast one angry look upon me, I am not; thou canst look me into eternity.

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