2 Samuel 17:23; Matthew 27:5
So that my soul - So that I; the soul being put for himself. Chooseth strangling - Dr. Good renders it “suffocation,” and supposes that Job a...
So that my soul (k) chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life. (k) He speaks as one overcome with sorrow, and not of judgment, or of the...
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...
rather than my life . by mine [own] hands. life . bones, or limbs: i.e. hands.
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. Chooseth strangling - It is very likely that he felt, in those interrupted and...
So that my soul chooseth strangling, &c.— My soul therefore chooseth strangling; death rather than the recovery of my health. Heath. But Houb...
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. My soul chooseth strangling. Umbreit translate, 'So that I could wish to...
Job's First Speech (concluded) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny.
Strangling ] or, suffocation. Job longs for the arrival of this sign of approaching death. My life] RV ' these my bones.' He was reduced to a ske...
So that my soul maketh choice of strangling and death rather than a life like this. Literally, than these my bones, or, as some take it, a death...
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...
So that my soul chooseth strangling ,.... Not to strangle himself, as Ahithophel did, or to be strangled by others, this being a kind of death infli...
So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life. Ver. 15. So that my soul chooseth strangling ] i.e. Quamvis durissimam se...
So that my soul chooseth strangling The most violent death, so it be but certain and sudden, rather than such a wretched life. Hebrews מעצמותי, me...
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...
Chooseth; not simply and in itself, but comparatively, rather than such a wretched life. Strangling; the most violent, so it be but a certain and...
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...
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
so that my soul chooseth strangling, in wishing that the asthma which accompanied his illness might choke him, and death rather than my life, liter...
15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.b