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Verse. Job 7:17. _WHAT_ IS _MAN THAT THOU SHOULDEST MAGNIFY HIM? AND
THAT_ _THOU SHOULDEST SET THINE HEART UPON HIM?_] Two different ideas
have been drawn from these words: -
1. Man is not worth thy...
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WHAT IS MAN, THAT THOU SHOULDEST MAGNIFY HIM? - That thou shouldst
make him great, or that thou shouldst regard him as of so great
importance as to fix thine eye attentively upon him. The idea here is...
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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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WHAT IS MAN... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
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Second, Job asks, If man be not too mean a thing for God thus to busy
Himself with and persecute? cf. ch. Job 14:3.
_set thine heart_ that is, thy _mind_; as _magnify_means, to think
great, to consid...
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WHAT IS MAN, &C.?— _What is mortal man, that thou shouldst contend
with him, and that thou shouldst set thy heart against him?_
Schultens....
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7. To God he addresses some difficult questions. (Job 7:16-21)
TEXT 7:16-21
16 I LOATHE _my life;_ I WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAY:
Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
17 What Is man, that thou shouldest...
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_WHAT IS MAN, THAT THOU SHOULDEST MAGNIFY HIM? AND THAT THOU SHOULDEST
SET THINE HEART UPON HIM?_
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? (cf. Psalms 8:4; Psalms
144:3). Job means, 'What is man...
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JOB'S FIRST SPEECH (CONCLUDED)
1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny....
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MAGNIFY] i.e. consider of such importance. SET THINE HEART] or 'fix
thy thoughts.' The thought of Job 7:17. is 'Surely man is too
insignificant for such constant persecution. Even Ins sins are hardly...
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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 was special to God (Job 1:8). Job knew this. But Job did not know
why. God watched Job because Job was God’s servant (Job 2:3). But
Job supposed that God had become Job’s enemy. Job thought that G...
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WHAT IS MAN...? — Here is another point of contact with Psalms 8:5;
but the spirit of the Psalmist was one of devout adoration, whereas
that of Job is one of agony and desperation....
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מָֽה ־אֱ֭נֹושׁ כִּ֣י תְגַדְּלֶ֑נּוּ
וְ כִי ־ת
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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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What [is] man, that thou (m) shouldest magnify him? and that thou
shouldest set thine heart upon him?
(m) Seeing that man of himself is so vile, why do you give him that
honour to contend against him...
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_Magnify him, or put his to such severe trials. He is not worthy of
thy attention. (Calmet) --- Hebrews ii. 6. (Haydock)_...
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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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WHAT [IS] MAN, THAT THOU SHOULDEST MAGNIFY HIM?.... Man in his best
estate, in his original state, was but of the earth, earthly; a
mutable creature, and altogether vanity; so that it was wonderful Go...
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What [is] man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou
shouldest set thine heart upon him?
Ver. 17. _What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him?_] _i.e._ Make
so much ado about him, or look...
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_What is man Enosh_, lapsed, fallen man; _that thou shouldest magnify
him?_ What is there in that poor, mean creature called man, _miserable
man_, which can induce thee to take any notice of him, or t...
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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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"WHAT IS MAN THAT YOU MAGNIFY HIM, AND THAT YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT
HIM": This is exactly the same question that David posed in Psalms
8:3, yet Job and David come to completely opposite conclusions. D...
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17-21 Job reasons with God concerning his dealings with man. But in
the midst of this discourse, Job seems to have lifted up his thoughts
to God with some faith and hope. Observe the concern he is in...
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What is there in that poor, mean, contemptible creature called man,
_miserable man_, as this word signifies, which can induce or incline
thee to take any notice of him, to show him such respect, or to...
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Job 7:17 man H582 exalt H1431 (H8762) set H7896 (H8799) heart H3820
What is man - Psalms 8:4,...
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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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_What is man, that Thou shouldst magnify him?_
DIVINE CONDESCENSION
Here is a question that is both answered and unanswerable.
I. A scriptural solution of the question.
1. What is man as a creature...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 7:17 WHAT IS MAN, THAT YOU MAKE SO MUCH OF HIM
echoes Psalms 8:4 (“what is man that you are mindful of him”).
However, where...
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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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1 Samuel 24:14; Hebrews 2:6; Job 34:14; Job 34:15; Job 7:12;...
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What, &c. — What is there in that poor, mean, creature called man,
miserable man, as this word signifies, which can induce thee to take
any notice of him, or to make such account of him? Man is not wo...