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Job 7:11

JOB—NOTE ON Job 7:11 The three parallel statements of this verse (I will... ) mark the transition from Job’s response to Eliphaz to his response to God. That transition is also marked by the change in reference to God from the third person (“he”) in Job 6:9 to the second person (“you”) in Job 7:12.

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See also Job 7:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 7:11. _THEREFORE I WILL NOT REFRAIN_] All is hopeless; I will therefore indulge myself in complaining....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEREFORE I WILL NOT REFRAIN MY MOUTH - The idea in this verse is, “such is my distress at the prospect of dying, that I cannot but express it. The idea of going away from all my comforts, and of bein...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • 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, had become quieter, and his complaint almost an elegy on human misery. But now he bursts forth again wit...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job heaps image upon image to set before himself and the eye of God the brevity of life, the weaver's shuttle (Job 7:6), the wind (Job 7:7), the morning cloud (Job 7:9; Hosea 6:4), ending with a pa

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THAT MY LIFE IS WIND— _That my life is but empty breath._ Houbigant. It is easy to observe, in almost all Job's speeches, the struggle which he laboured under, between an earnest desire of death, as a...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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._ Therefore, as such is may hard lot, I will at least have the melanchol...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S FIRST SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job thought that a dead man would not live again. But Job did not think that this was fair. Job loved God (Job 1:21). Job wanted to meet God (Job 13:22). Job wanted to be really wise (Job chapter 28)....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    גַּם ־אֲנִי֮ לֹ֤א אֶחֱשָׂ֫ךְ פִּ֥י אֲֽ֭דַבְּרָה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • 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 aggravated by the misunderstanding of friends. Indeed, it...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Therefore I will not (g) refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. (g) Seeing I can by no other means comfort myself I will declare my...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Mouth. I will vent my bitter complaints before I die. (Haydock)_...

  • 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, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? (1...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEREFORE I WILL NOT REFRAIN MY MOUTH,.... From speaking and complaining; seeing, besides the common lot of mankind, which is a state of warfare, sorrow, and trouble, and is as much as a man can well...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 11. _Therefore I will not refrain my mouth_] Heb. I will not prohib...

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

    _Therefore I will not refrain_, &c. Since my life is so vain and short, and, when once lost, without all hopes of recovery. I will plead with God for pity before I die; I will not smother my anguish w...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Therefore, since God had practically abandoned him to dwell in the realm of the dead, I WILL NOT REFRAIN MY MOUTH, put no restraint on his speech; I WILL SPEAK IN THE ANGUISH OF MY SPIRIT, in the bitt...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB ARRAIGNS GOD...

  • Leslie 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 friends would agree to his questions. "Is there not a t...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "THEREFORE. WILL NOT RESTRAIN MY MOUTH;. WILL SPEAK IN THE ANGUISH OF MY SPIRIT,. WILL COMPLAIN IN THE BITTERNESS OF MY SOUL": Job will not remain quiet, it seems that he feels he has nothing to lose....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Since my life is by the common condition of mankind so vain and short, and, when once lost, without all hopes of recovery, and withal extremely miserable, I will plead with God for pity and relief bef...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 7:11 restrain H2820 (H8799) mouth H6310 speak H1696 (H8762) anguish H6862 spirit H7307 complain H7878 ...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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 dies ejus? “Is not the life of man a warfare upon the e...

  • The 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 to God. I. COMPLAINS OF THE GENERAL LOT OF HUMANITY...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 1:10; 2 Corinthians 2:4; 2 Kings 4:27; 2 Kings 4:28; Ge

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Therefore — Since my life is so vain and short, and when once lost, without all hopes of recovery. I will plead with God for pity before I die; I will not smother my anguish within my breast, but will...

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