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Verse Job 7:4. _WHEN I LIE DOWN_] I have so little rest, that when I
do lie down I long for the return of the light, that I may rise.
Nothing can better depict the state of a man under continual
affl...
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WHEN I LIE DOWN - I find no comfort and no rest on my bed. My nights
are long, and I am impatient to have them passed, and equally so is it
with the day. This is a description which all can understand...
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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 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 how dreadfully he suffers, and to accuse God of
cr...
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DAWNING. Hebrew. _nesheph._. Homonym, having two meanings: (1) as
here, daylight; (2) darkness. See notes on 1 Samuel 30:17. 2Ki 7:5, 2
Kings 7:7....
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A graphic account of his condition under his malady. Job 7:4 should
probably be rendered,
When I lie down I say, When shall I arise?
And the night stretches out, and I am full of tossings, &c.
At e...
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5. God decrees what man receives. (Job 7:1-10)
TEXT 7:1-10
7 IS THERE NOT A WARFARE TO MAN UPON EARTH?
And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
2 As a servant that earnestly desireth the...
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_WHEN I LIE DOWN, I SAY, WHEN SHALL I ARISE, AND THE NIGHT BE GONE?
AND I AM FULL OF TOSSINGS TO AND FRO UNTO THE DAWNING OF THE DAY._
When shall ... the night - literally, 'When shall be the flight...
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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 could not sleep by night, because of his pain. Instead, he waited
for the dawn. This is very sad. But perhaps Job was starting to have
some hope.
Daylight begins to shine at dawn. And light has a...
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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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WHEN I LIE DOWN, I SAY. — Or, _When I lie down, then I say, When
shall I arise? But the night is long, and I am filled with tossings to
and fro till the morning twilight.
_...
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אִם ־שָׁכַ֗בְתִּי וְ אָמַ֗רְתִּי
מָתַ֣י אָ֭קוּם...
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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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_And again. Hebrew, "and the night be completed, I toss to and fro,"
(Haydock) or "I am disturbed with dreams, (Calmet) till day break."
Vulgate insinuates that night and day are equally restless to a...
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(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 shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward o...
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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 LIE DOWN, I SAY, WHEN SHALL I ARISE,.... Or, "then I say", c. t
that is, as soon as he laid himself down in his bed, and endeavoured
to compose himself to sleep, in order to get rest and refres...
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When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and
I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Ver. 4. _When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? &c._] Here is...
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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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THE NIGHT BE GONE?:
_ Heb._ the evening be measured...
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1-6 Job here excuses what he could not justify, his desire of death.
Observe man's present place: he is upon earth. He is yet on earth, not
in hell. Is there not a time appointed for his abode here?...
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WHEN I LIE DOWN, to get some rest and sleep. _The night_, Heb. _the
evening_; the part put for the whole, as it is GENESIS 1:5. TO AND
FRO; from side to side in the bed, as men in grievous pains of bo...
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Job 7:4 down H7901 (H8804) say H559 (H8804) arise H6965 (H8799) night
H6153 ended H4059 fill H7
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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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_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 cause is furthered by us, and we ourselves seem rather...
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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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Deuteronomy 28:67; Isaiah 54:11; Job 17:12; Job 30:17; Job 7:13;...