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Verse Job 7:14. _THOU SPAREST ME WITH DREAMS_] There is no doubt that
Satan was permitted to haunt his _imagination_ with dreadful dreams
and terrific appearances; so that, as soon as he fell asleep,...
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THEN THOU SCAREST ME - This is an address to God. He regarded him as
the source of his sorrows, and he expresses his sense of this in
language indeed very beautiful, but far from reverence.
WITH DREA...
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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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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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DREAMS] the bad dreams of the sick....
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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 was referring to Eliphaz’s dream. See Job 4:13-21. Eliphaz
thought that this dream would help Job. But really, the dream only
frightened Job. Job had enough troubles already! He did not want to
th...
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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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וְ חִתַּתַּ֥נִי בַ חֲלֹמֹ֑ות וּֽ מֵ
חֶזְיֹנֹ֥
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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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Then thou scarest me (i) with dreams, and terrifiest me through
visions:
(i) So that I can have no rest, night or day....
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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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THEN THOU SCAREST ME WITH DREAMS,.... Not with dreams and visions
being told him, as were by Eliphaz, Job 4:13; but with dreams he
himself dreamed; and which might arise from the force of his
distempe...
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Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
Ver. 14. _Then thou scarest me with dreams_] _Extremam tentationem
describit,_ saith Vatablus; and the devil doubtless had a great...
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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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then Thou scarest me with dreams, shaking him thereby to prevent his
resting in comfort, AND TERRIFIEST ME THROUGH VISIONS, in consequence
of them,...
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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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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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With sad and dreadful dreams, arising either from that melancholy
humour which is now so fixed in me, and predominant over me, or from
the devil's malice, who by thy permission disturbs me in this man...
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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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Daniel 2:1; Genesis 40:5; Genesis 41:8; Judges 7:13; Judges 7:14;...