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WHEN I SAY, MY BED SHALL COMFORT ME - The idea in this verse and the
following is, that there was no intermission to his sorrows. Even the
times when people usually sought repose were to him times of...
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CHAPTER S 6-7 JOB'S ANSWER
_ 1. His Despair justified by the greatness of his suffering (Job
6:1)_
2. He requests to be cut off (Job 6:8)
3. He reproacheth his friends (Job 6:14)
4. The misery of...
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Job again gives utterance to his complaint. In the previous passage
Job's tone, as in Job 3:11, had become quieter, and his complaint
almost an elegy on human misery. But now he bursts forth again wit...
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COMPLAINT. complainings....
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Further description of the plagues employed to subdue him.
_ease my complaint Complaint_always means complaining, not malady; ch.
Job 9:27; Job 10:1; Job 21:4; Job 23:2. When he
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6. He finds no mercy, neither from God or from his friends. (Job
7:11-15)
TEXT 7:11-15
11 THEREFORE I WILL NOT REFRAIN MY MONTH;
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I will complain in the bit...
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_AM I A SEA, OR A WHALE, THAT THOU SETTEST A WATCH OVER ME?_
Why dost thou deny me the comfort of care-assuaging sleep? Why scarest
thou me with frightful dreams?
AM I, THEN, A SEA - regarded in Old...
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JOB'S FIRST SPEECH (CONCLUDED)
1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny....
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 7
JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY T...
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Job could not sleep because of his pain – see verse 4....
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כִּֽי ־אָ֭מַרְתִּי תְּנַחֲמֵ֣נִי
עַרְשִׂ֑י יִשָּׂ֥א בְ֝...
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VIII.
MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING
Job 6:1; Job 7:1
Job SPEAKS
WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own
heart because no channel outside self is provided for the hot strea...
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LONGING FOR THE EVENING
Job 7:1
The servant eagerly longs for the lengthening shadow, which tells him
that his day of labor is at an end, and we may allow ourselves to
anticipate the hour of our rew...
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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 aggravated by the misunderstanding of friends. Indeed, it...
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(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, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? (1...
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Job's Answer to Eliphaz
I. INTRODUCTION
I. Job 7:1 (NKJV) "[Is] [there] not a time of hard service for man on
earth? [Are] [not] his days also like the days of a hired man?
Job 7:2 Like a servant w...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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WHEN I SAY, MY BED SHALL COMFORT ME,.... When he thought within
himself that he would lie down upon his bed and try if he could get a
little sleep, which might comfort and refresh him, and which he
pr...
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When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Ver. 13. _When I say, My bed shall comfort me_] The bed was the most
proper and probable means of refreshment; but it is not the...
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_My couch shall ease my complaint_ By giving me sweet and quiet sleep,
which may take off my sense of pain for that time. _Then thou scarest
me with dreams_ With sad and frightful dreams. _And terrifi...
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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 friends would agree to his questions. "Is
there not a t...
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"IF. SAY, 'MY BED WILL COMFORT ME, MY COUCH WILL EASE MY COMPLAINT',
THEN YOU FRIGHTEN ME WITH DREAMS AND TERRIFY ME BY VISIONS": Job now
accuses God of frightening him with nightmares so that he cou...
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7-16 Plain truths as to the shortness and vanity of man's life, and
the certainty of death, do us good, when we think and speak of them
with application to ourselves. Dying is done but once, and ther...
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By giving me sweet and quiet sleep, which may take off the sense of my
torments for that while....
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Job 7:13 say H559 (H8804) bed H6210 comfort H5162 (H8762) couch H4904
ease H5375 (H8799) complaint...
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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 is a part of his language under those circumstance...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer to Eliphaz continued.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, Eliphaz.
CONCLUSION: We believe in the sun even when it is hidden behind a
cloud, therefore we should not doubt the goodness of God...
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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 dies ejus? “Is not the life of man a warfare upon
the e...
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_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S SPEECH_
Job ceases to altercate with Eliphaz and to defend himself. Resumes
his complaints, and ends by addressing himself to God.
I. COMPLAINS OF THE GENERAL LOT OF HUMANITY...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 7:1
In this chapter Job first bewails his miserable fate, of which he
expects no alleviation (verses 1-10); then claims an unlimited right
of complaint (verse 11); and finally enters i...
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Is there not an appointed time to man upon the earth? are not his days
also like the days of a hireling? As a servant earnestly desires the
shadow (Job 7:1-2),
That is, the shadow of the clock going...
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Job 7:3; Job 7:4; Job 9:27; Job 9:28; Psalms 6:6;...