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Verse Job 7:15. _CHOOSETH STRANGLING_] It is very likely that he felt,
in those interrupted and dismal slumbers, an oppression and difficulty
of breathing something like the _incubus_ or _nightmare_;...
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SO THAT MY SOUL - So that I; the soul being put for himself.
CHOOSETH STRANGLING - Dr. Good renders it “suffocation,” and
supposes that Job alludes to the oppression of breathing, produced by
what 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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RATHER THAN MY LIFE. by mine [own] hands.
LIFE. bones, or limbs: i.e. hands....
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Consequence of the preceding, Job 7:14.
_chooseth strangling_ A sense of choking is one of the accompaniments
of the disease, which is said to end sometimes in actual suffocation.
Job refers to this s...
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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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_SO THAT MY SOUL CHOOSETH STRANGLING, AND DEATH RATHER THAN MY LIFE._
My soul chooseth strangling. Umbreit translate, 'So that I could wish
to strangle myself-dead by my own hands.' He softens this i...
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JOB'S FIRST SPEECH (CONCLUDED)
1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny....
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STRANGLING] or, suffocation. Job longs for the arrival of this sign of
approaching death. MY LIFE] RV '_these_ my bones.' He was reduced to a
skeleton. Possibly we should read 'my pains.'...
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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 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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SO THAT MY SOUL MAKETH choice of strangling and death rather than a
life like this. Literally, _than these my bones,_ or, as some take it,
_a death by these my members:_ a death inflicted by myself, s...
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וַ תִּבְחַ֣ר מַחֲנָ֣ק נַפְשִׁ֑י
מָ֝֗וֶת מֵֽ ע
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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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So that my soul (k) chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my
life.
(k) He speaks as one overcome with sorrow, and not of judgment, or of
the examination of his faith....
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Hanging. Protestants, "strangling and death, rather than my life," or
Marginal note, "bones." (Haydock) --- Any species of Death would be
preferable to this misery. (Calmet) --- Who would not entertai...
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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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SO THAT MY SOUL CHOOSETH STRANGLING,.... Not to strangle himself, as
Ahithophel did, or to be strangled by others, this being a kind of
death inflicted on capital offenders; but rather, as Mr. Brought...
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So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.
Ver. 15. _So that my soul chooseth strangling_] _i.e._ _Quamvis
durissimam sed praesentissimam mortem,_ any violent or ignominiou...
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_So that my soul chooseth strangling_ The most violent death, so it be
but certain and sudden, rather than such a wretched life. Hebrews
מעצמותי, _megnatsmothai, rather than my bones_ That is, than my...
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JOB ARRAIGNS GOD...
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so that my soul chooseth strangling, in wishing that the asthma which
accompanied his illness might choke him, AND DEATH RATHER THAN MY
LIFE, literally, "than these bones," that is, in preference to h...
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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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THEN MY LIFE:
_ Heb._ then my bones...
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"SO THAT MY SOUL WOULD CHOOSE SUFFOCATION, DEATH RATHER THAN MY
PAINS": Job again expresses his desire to end his life-yet he never
makes any effort to actually take his life. Even while enduring
inte...
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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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CHOOSETH; not simply and in itself, but comparatively, rather than
such a wretched life. STRANGLING; the most violent, so it be but a
certain and sudden death. RATHER THAN MY LIFE, Heb. _than my bones...
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Job 7:15 soul H5315 chooses H977 (H8799) strangling H4267 death H4194
body H6106
chooseth - 2 Sam
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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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2 Samuel 17:23; Matthew 27:5...