Job 7:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. ”

• Job 7:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away - This image is taken from the light and fleecy clouds, which become smaller and smaller until they wholly vanish. For an illustration of a similar phr...

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• Job 7:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (e) [As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall (f) come up no [more]. (e) If you behold me in your anger I will not be able to stand in your presence. (...

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• Job 7:9 - 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 7:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the grave. Hebrew. Sheol. See App-35.

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• Job 7:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more . As the cloud is consumed - As the cloud is dissipated, so is the breath of those that go dow...

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• Job 7:9 - 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 7:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. ( 2 Samuel 12:23 ). David as to his child, "I shall go to him, but he shall not return to...

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• Job 7:9 - 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 7:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  As the cloud is consumed. — It is a fine simile that man is as evanescent as a cloud; and very apt is the figure, because, whether it vanishes on the surface of the sky or is distributed in rain, n...

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• Job 7:9 - 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 7:9 - 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 7:9 - 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 7:9 - 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 7:9 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  A VAPOUR THAT VANISHETH AWAY ‘As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.’ Job 7:9 It is thus that man’s soul is at once darkened a...

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• Job 7:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  [As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away ,.... Which being dispersed by the wind, or broke up by the sun, is never seen, or returns more; for though the wise man speaks of clouds returning afte...

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• Job 7:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Job 7:9 [As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more]. Ver. 9. As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away ] A cloud is nothing else b...

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• Job 7:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  As the cloud is consumed Being dissolved by the heat of the sun. And vanisheth away Never to return again. So he that goeth down, &c., shall come up no more Never until the general resurrec...

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• Job 7:9 - 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 7:9 - 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 7:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The cloud is consumed; being dried up or dissolved by the heat of the sun. Vanisheth away; never returneth again. Shall come up no more, to live a natural, mortal life amongst men. For that he...

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• Job 7:9 - 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 7:9 - Scofield Reference Notes

  grave Hebrew, "Sheol." ( Habakkuk 2:5 ). ( See Scofield) - ( Habakkuk 2:5 ).

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• Job 7:9 - 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 7:9 - 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 7:9 - 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 7:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, the vapor disappearing in the dry air of the wilderness, so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more, if he is once in the realm of the dea...

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• Job 7:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Samuel 12:23 ; 2 Samuel 14:14 ; Isaiah 38:11 ; Job 10:21 ; Job 14:10-14 ; Job 16:22 ; Job 37:11 ; Psalms 39:13

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• Job 7:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  No more — Never until the general resurrection. When we see a cloud which looked great, as if it would eclipse the sun, of a sudden dispersed and disappearing, say, Just such a thing is the life of...

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