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Verse Job 7:16. _I LOATHE_ IT; _I WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAY_] Life, in such
circumstances, is hateful to me; and though I wish for long life, yet
if length of days were offered to me with the sufferings wh...
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I LOATHE IT - I loathe my life as it is now. It has become a burden
and I desire to part with it, and to go down to the grave. There is,
however, considerable variety in the interpretation of this. No...
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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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LOATHE [IT]. loathe [life], Job 7:16 is parenthetical, being the
thought of suicide, which intrudes itself upon him....
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So keenly does he realize the misery of his condition and the
intolerable painfulness of his life, that he breaks out into a
passionate cry that he hates and is weary of life _I loathe_it. The
object...
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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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_I LOATHE IT; I WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAY: LET ME ALONE; FOR MY DAYS ARE
VANITY._
I would not live alway - even if I could. A life of misery like mine
is, a thing to be loathed, not desired.
VANITY. "Let...
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7:16 breath. (a-17) Or, as often, 'vanity.' see Genesis 4:2 ....
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JOB'S FIRST SPEECH (CONCLUDED)
1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny....
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RV 'I loathe _my life:_ I would not live alway.' VANITY] RM 'as a
breath.'...
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Job did not want to suffer always. So, he did not want to live always.
He did not realise that nobody suffers in heaven – Revelation 21:4.
He did not realise that heaven is like a wonderful party – Is...
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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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I LOATHE IT — _i.e.,_ the thought of self-destruction; or, _I loathe
my life;_ or, according to others (see the margin), _I waste away:_
this, however, is perhaps less probable. Then the thought comes...
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מָ֭אַסְתִּי לֹא ־לְ עֹלָ֣ם אֶֽחְיֶ֑ה
חֲדַ֥ל מ
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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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I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: (l) let me alone; for my days
[are] vanity.
(l) Seeing my term of life is so short, let me have some rest and
ease....
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_Hope of surviving this misery. (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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I LOATHE [IT],.... Or "them" k, either his life, which was a weariness
to him, or his bones, which were so painful and nauseous; or rather,
"I am become loathsome", to himself, to his servants, and to...
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I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are]
vanity.
Ver. 16. _I loathe it, I would not live alway_] I loathe or abhor it,
that is, my life, or I loathe them, that is, my bo...
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_I loath it_ To wit, my life, last mentioned. _I would not live alway_
In this world, if I might, no not in prosperity; for even such a life
is but vanity; much less in this extremity of misery. _Let...
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I loathe it, he was disgusted with this life; I WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAY,
on account of the unendurable pain which he suffered. LET ME ALONE, he
asked God to withdraw His chastening hand from him; FOR MY...
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JOB ARRAIGNS GOD...
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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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"I WASTE AWAY;. WILL NOT LIVE FOREVER. LEAVE ME ALONE, FOR MY DAYS ARE
BUT. BREATH": This does not appear to be. desire for God to abandon
him spiritually, but for God to stop harassing him physically...
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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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I LOATHE IT, to wit, my life, last mentioned. I would not live alway
in this world if I might, no, not in prosperity, for even such a life
is but vanity, much less in this extremity of misery. Or, _le...
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Job 7:16 loathe H3988 (H8804) live H2421 (H8799) forever H5769 alone
H2308 (H8798) days H3117 breath...
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Job 7:16
The peculiar circumstances of Job had, no doubt, something to do with
eliciting from him this aspiration, otherwise its spirit would
scarcely accord with the general tone of the patriarchs an...
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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 would not live alway._
LIVING ALWAY
We are led to say with Job, “I would not live alway.”
I. From the state of things around us. They are subject to
dissolution, and are actually dissolving. Eve...
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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 Kings 19:4; Ecclesiastes 6:11; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Genesis 27:46;...