Job 7:19

How long — How long will it be ere thou withdraw thy afflicting hand? Swallow — That I may have a breathing time: a proverbial expression.

Related Commentaries of Job 7:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
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

Till I swallow, etc.] i.e. for a moment.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Till I swallow down my spittle. — This is doubtless a proverbial expression, like “the twinkling of an eye,” or “while I fetch a breath.”
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

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
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

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...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
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...
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 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

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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 9:18 ; Psalms 13:1-3 ; Psalms 6:3 ; Psalms 94:3 ; Revelation 6:10

¹⁹ How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

Related Commentaries of Job 7:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy 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

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 7:19