Job 9:18; Psalms 13:1-3; Psalms 6:3; Psalms 94:3; Revelation 6:10
How long wilt thou not depart? - How long is this to continue? The same word occurs in Job 14:6 . The word rendered “depart” שׁעה shâ‛âh m...
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...
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? Till I swallow down my spittle? - This is a proverbial expres...
How long wilt thou not depart from me?— Literally, How long wilt thou not take thine eyes off me? This is a metaphor borrowed from combatants, wh...
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? How long (like a jealous keeper) Wilt thou never...
Job's First Speech (concluded) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny.
Till I swallow, etc.] i.e. for a moment.
Till I swallow down my spittle. — This is doubtless a proverbial expression, like “the twinkling of an eye,” or “while I fetch a breath.”
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...
How long wilt thou not depart from me ,.... From wrestling and contending with him, and afflicting of him; the Lord was too hard a combatant for job...
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? Ver. 19. How long wilt thou not depart from me ] Here he s...
How long wilt thou not depart from me How long will it be ere thou withdraw thy afflicting hand from me? The Hebrew is literally, How long wilt tho...
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...
17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? 18 And that thou shouldest visit him...
How long will it be ere thou withdraw thy afflicting hand from me? Till I swallow down my spittle, i.e. for a little time; or that I may have a bre...
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
How long wilt Thou not depart from me, looking away from him, turning His attention to some other object upon which He might vent His wrath, nor let...
How long — How long will it be ere thou withdraw thy afflicting hand? Swallow — That I may have a breathing time: a proverbial expression.
19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?