Ecclesiastes 1:14; Job 29:2; Psalms 39:5; Psalms 6:6
So am I made to possess - Hebrew I am made to inherit. The meaning is, that such sad and melancholy seasons now were his only portion. Months...
So am I made to possess (b) months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. (b) My sorrow has continued from month to month, and I have...
Job complains of the misery of his life and destiny. How is it that Job does not go on to maintain his innocence? Instead of this he proceeds to show...
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. So am I made to possess - But night is no relief to me, it is onl...
So am I made to possess— So am I made to inherit—and nights of misery are my portion: Heath; who, instead of I am full of tossings, in the next...
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. Months of vanity - comfortless misfortune. "I am made (ob...
Job's First Speech (concluded) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny.
Months of vanity ] so called because they were unsatisfactory, hopeless. 'Months' imply that Job's sufferings had lasted a considerable time.
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...
(1) В¶ Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? (2) As a servant earnestly desireth the...
So am I made to possess months of vanity ,.... This is not a reddition or application of the above similes of the servant and hireling, Job 7:1 ; f...
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. Ver. 3. So am I made to possess months of vanity ] So, but a g...
So am I made to possess , &c. This word, so , respects not so much the desire of a hired servant, as the cause of it, his hard toil and service...
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...
Job's Reply to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. 1...
This so respects not so much the desire and expectation of a hired servant, which is expressed Job 7:2 , as the ground and reason of it, which is...
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...
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow. Longing for sunset The title of this sermon is the subject of a picture. The artist shows an overwo...
I am made to possess months of vanity. The wasted weeks of sickness “Months of vanity” indicate a protracted time of uselessness, when no good...
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 General Misery of Human Life
so am I, instead of enjoying the expected rest, spoken in irony, made to possess months of vanity, this time of wretchedness was allotted to him,...
So — This so respects not so much the desire of an hired servant, as the ground of it, his hard toil and service. Possess — God, hath given me this...
3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.