Job 7:16

1 Kings 19:4; Ecclesiastes 6:11; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Genesis 27:46; Job 10:1; Job 10:20; Job 14:6; Job 3:20-22; Job 6:9; Jonah 4:3; Jonah 4:8; Psalms 144:4; Psalms 39:10; Psalms 39:13; Psalms 62:9; Psalms 78:33

Related Commentaries of Job 7:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I loathe it - I loathe my life as it is now. It has become a burden and I desire to part with it, and to go down to the grave. There is, however,...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: (l) let me alone; for my days [are] vanity. (l) Seeing my term of life is so short, let me have some rest and...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

loathe [it] . loathe [life], Job 7:16 is parenthetical, being the thought of suicide, which intrudes itself upon him.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I loathe it ; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. I loathe it; I would not live alway - Life, in such circumstances, is...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. I would not live alway - even if I could. A life of misery like mi...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's First Speech (concluded) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

RV 'I loathe my life: I would not live alway.' Vanity] RM 'as a breath.'
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I loathe it — i.e., the thought of self-destruction; or, I loathe my life; or, according to others (see the margin), I waste away: this, howe...
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 hea...
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, an...
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 aggrav...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I loathe [it] ,.... Or "them" k, either his life, which was a weariness to him, or his bones, which were so painful and nauseous; or rather, "I am b...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity. Ver. 16. I loathe it, I would not live alway ] I loathe or abhor it...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I loath it To wit, my life, last mentioned. I would not live alway In this world, if I might, no not in prosperity; for even such a life is but v...
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 f...
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...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I loathe it, to wit, my life, last mentioned. I would not live alway in this world if I might, no, not in prosperity, for even such a life is but v...
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...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Job 7:16 The peculiar circumstances of Job had, no doubt, something to do with eliciting from him this aspiration, otherwise its spirit would scar...
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...
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 di...
The Biblical Illustrator

I would not live alway. Living alway We are led to say with Job, “I would not live alway.” I. From the state of things around us. They are s...
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 a...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Arraigns God
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I loathe it, he was disgusted with this life; I would not live alway, on account of the unendurable pain which he suffered. Let me alone, he aske...

¹⁶ I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

Related Commentaries of Job 7:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 7:16