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

Bible Comments

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.e. I am a dead man. So that phrase is used Genesis 5:24, Genesis 42:13 44:20 Psa 103 16 Jer 31:15. Or, 2. When thine eyes shall be upon me (i.e. when thou shalt look for me to do me good, thou wilt find that) I am not, that I am dead and gone, and uncapable of that bounty and goodness which thou givest to men in this world. Compare Job 7:21 Psalms 10:15 Jeremiah 50:20.

Job 7:8

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