Job 38:6-11; Job 41:1-34; Job 7:17; Lamentations 3:7
Am I a sea? - That is, “am I like a raging and tumultuous sea, that it is necessary to restrain and confine me? The sense of the verse is, that G...
[Am] I a sea, (h) or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? (h) Am I not a poor wretch? Why do you need to lay so much pain on me?
Job again gives utterance to his complaint. In the previous passage Job's tone, as in Job 3:11-19 , had become quieter, and his complaint almost an...
Am I. ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. whale . a sea-monster. watch . a bound. Compare Jeremiah 6:22 . over . about, as in Job 13:27 ;...
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? Am I a sea, or a whale - "Am I condemned as the Egyptians were who were drowned in the R...
Am I a sea, or a whale, &c.— Houbigant renders it, Am I a sea or a whale, that thou raisest a tempest against me? an idea which very well sui...
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? Why dost thou deny me the comfort of care-assuaging sleep? Why scarest thou me with...
Job's First Speech (concluded) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny.
'Am I so dangerous a character that I need such persistent persecution?.' Whale ] rather, 'sea monster,' perhaps the personification of the sea, the...
Am I a sea, or a whale...? — This very hard verse it seems most reasonable to explain, if we can, from Scripture itself: e.g., in Jeremiah 5:22...
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 hea...
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, an...
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 aggrav...
(11) Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. (12) Amos I a sea...
[Am] I a sea, or a whale ,.... Like the restless sea, to which very wicked, profligate, and abandoned sinners are compared, that are continually cas...
Job 7:12 [Am] I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? Ver. 12. Am I a sea, or a whale ] Can I bear all troubles, as the sea rece...
Am I a sea Am I as fierce and unruly as the sea, which, if thou didst not set bounds to it, would overwhelm the earth? Or a whale? Am I a vast a...
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 f...
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...
Am I so great, and powerful, and dangerous a creature, that thou needest to use extraordinary power and violence to rule and subdue me? Am I as fierc...
CONTINUATION OF JOB’S SPEECH Job ceases to altercate with Eliphaz and to defend himself. Resumes his complaints, and ends by addressing himself...
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...
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 di...
Am I a sea, or a whale, that Thou settest a watch over me? Watch and ward These words are part of that first great cry to heaven that broke fro...
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 a...
Job Arraigns God
Am I a sea or a whale, some monster of the deep, that Thou set test a watch over me? He felt himself watched, shut in, by God, like a dangerous cre...
A sea — Am I as fierce and unruly as the sea, which, if thou didst not set bounds to it, would overwhelm the earth? Or, am I a vast and ungovernabl...
12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?