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Job 7
21 verses with commentary
Job Continues: Life Is Hard and Brief
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? an appointed: or, a warfare
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Job compares human existence to 'an appointed time' (warfare) and days like those of a 'hireling' (day laborer). This double metaphor captures life's toilsome, temporary nature under the curse. The military imagery suggests spiritual warfare, while the economic reference highlights human frailty and dependence.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 7
Chapter Outline
Esther accuses Haman.(1-6)
Haman hanged on his own gallows.(7-10)
**Verses 1-6**
If the love of life causes earnest pleadings with those that can only kill the body, how fervent should our prayers be to Him, who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell! How should we pray for the salvation of our relatives, friends, and all around us! When we petiti...
Read full commentary →As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: earnestly: Heb. gapeth after
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Job employs a double comparison to express his desperate longing for relief. The Hebrew word for 'servant' (ebed, עֶבֶד) refers to a bondservant or slave who eagerly awaits the evening shadow—the end of his labor day. The 'hireling' (sakir, שָׂכִיר) denotes a day laborer who anxiously anticipates his wages. Both images convey earnest, weary expectation of relief from toil.<br><br>Job's comparison ...
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Chapter 7
Chapter Outline
Esther accuses Haman.(1-6)
Haman hanged on his own gallows.(7-10)
**Verses 1-6**
If the love of life causes earnest pleadings with those that can only kill the body, how fervent should our prayers be to Him, who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell! How should we pray for the salvation of our relatives, friends, and all around us! When we petiti...
Read full commentary →So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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The phrase 'made to possess' (nachal, נָחַל) typically refers to receiving an inheritance or portion—bitterly ironic as Job's 'inheritance' consists of 'months of vanity' and 'wearisome nights.' The Hebrew shav (שָׁוְא, vanity) denotes emptiness, futility, and worthlessness—the same word used in Ecclesiastes to describe life 'under the sun.' Job's suffering has become his appointed portion, replac...
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Chapter 7
Chapter Outline
Esther accuses Haman.(1-6)
Haman hanged on his own gallows.(7-10)
**Verses 1-6**
If the love of life causes earnest pleadings with those that can only kill the body, how fervent should our prayers be to Him, who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell! How should we pray for the salvation of our relatives, friends, and all around us! When we petiti...
Read full commentary →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. the night: Heb. the evening be measured?
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Job's description of insomnia captures the torment of sleepless suffering. The question 'When shall I arise?' (matay akum, מָתַי אָקוּם) expresses desperate longing for morning—yet when morning comes, he longs for it to pass. This psychological agony reveals suffering's disorienting power. The phrase 'full of tossings' uses the Hebrew nadad (נָדַד), meaning restless wandering or fleeing, suggestin...
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(4) **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.*
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 7
Chapter Outline
Esther accuses Haman.(1-6)
Haman hanged on his own gallows.(7-10)
**Verses 1-6**
If the love of life causes earnest pleadings with those that can only kill the body, how fervent should our prayers be to Him, who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell! How should we pray for the salvation of our relatives, friends, and all around us! When we petiti...
Read full commentary →My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
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Job's graphic description of physical deterioration shocks with its visceral honesty. 'Clothed with worms' (labash rimmah, לָבַשׁ רִמָּה) uses the verb for putting on garments—his body is 'dressed' in parasitic infestation, likely maggots in his sores. 'Clods of dust' (gush aphar, גּוּשׁ עָפָר) refers to crusted, hardened dirt mixed with bodily discharge forming scabs. His skin is 'broken' (ragam,...
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(5) **With worms and clods of dust.**—It is characteristic of Elephantiasis that the skin becomes hard and rugous, and then cracks and becomes ulcerated.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 7
Chapter Outline
Esther accuses Haman.(1-6)
Haman hanged on his own gallows.(7-10)
**Verses 1-6**
If the love of life causes earnest pleadings with those that can only kill the body, how fervent should our prayers be to Him, who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell! How should we pray for the salvation of our relatives, friends, and all around us! When we petiti...
Read full commentary →My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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Job employs the metaphor of a weaver's shuttle (ereg, אֶרֶג) to describe time's swift passage. The shuttle flies back and forth with remarkable speed, creating fabric in what seems an instant—yet Job's days pass with equal rapidity 'without hope' (ephes tiqvah, אֶפֶס תִּקְוָה). The Hebrew ephes means 'nothingness' or 'cessation,' while tiqvah denotes expectation or confident waiting. Job's days hu...
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Chapter 7
Chapter Outline
Esther accuses Haman.(1-6)
Haman hanged on his own gallows.(7-10)
**Verses 1-6**
If the love of life causes earnest pleadings with those that can only kill the body, how fervent should our prayers be to Him, who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell! How should we pray for the salvation of our relatives, friends, and all around us! When we petiti...
Read full commentary →O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. shall: Heb. shall not return see: to see, that is, to enjoy
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Job addresses God directly: 'O remember that my life is wind' - the Hebrew ruach suggests breath, spirit, vanity. This plea for divine remembrance acknowledges God's sovereignty while appealing to His mercy. The transience of life makes present suffering feel disproportionate to any past sin.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation v...
Read full commentary →The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. I am: that is, I can live no longer
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Job addresses God directly, shifting from description to confrontation. 'The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more' anticipates his impending death—those who know him will soon observe his absence. The phrase 'thine eyes are upon me, and I am not' (ayin, אַיִן, 'I am not') employs the Hebrew word for non-existence or nothingness. Job contemplates his mortality while aware of God's scru...
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(8) **Shall see me no more.**—That is, *thine own eyes shall look for me, but I shall be no more. *So LXX. and Vulg.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation v...
Read full commentary →As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
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Job employs natural imagery to illustrate death's finality: the cloud that dissipates never reconstitutes. The verb 'consumed' (kalah, כָּלָה) means to complete, finish, or bring to end. The cloud 'vanisheth away' (halak, הָלַךְ) using the common verb for going or walking—it departs permanently. Job applies this to human mortality: 'he that goeth down to the grave' (Sheol, שְׁאוֹל) 'shall come up ...
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(9) **As the cloud is consumed.**—It is a fine simile that man is as evanescent as a cloud; and very apt is the figure, because, whether it vanishes on the surface of the sky or is distributed in rain, nothing more completely passes away than the summer cloud. It is an appearance only, which comes to nought.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation v...
Read full commentary →He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
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Job intensifies his meditation on death's irreversibility: 'He shall return no more to his house' employs the verb shuv (שׁוּב), meaning to return or turn back—the same verb used in repentance theology. Death represents an irreversible departure from earthly dwelling. 'Neither shall his place know him any more' uses the verb nakar (נָכַר), meaning to recognize, acknowledge, or regard. The deceased...
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(10) **Neither shall his place . . .**—This language is imitated in Psalm 103:16. We need not force these words too much, as though they forbad our ascribing to Job any belief in a future life or in the resurrection, because, under any circumstances, they are evidently and accurately true of man as we know him here. Even though he may live again in another way, it is not in this world that he live...
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**Verses 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 therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation v...
Read full 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.
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Job refuses to restrain his speech: 'I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.' This commitment to honest prayer models authentic relationship with God. Lament is not rebellion but faith that God can handle our hardest questions.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Ne 10:29-39. Points of the Covenant.
**29-37. to observe and do all the commandments, &c.--**This national covenant, besides containing a solemn pledge of obedience to the divine law generally, specified their engagement to some particular duties, which the character and exigency of the times stamped with great urgency and importance, and which may be summed up under the following heads: that...
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**Verses 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 therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation v...
Read full commentary →Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
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Job questions why God treats him like dangerous cosmic forces requiring constant surveillance. The 'sea' (yam, יָם) and 'whale' (tannin, תַּנִּין, better translated as 'sea monster' or 'dragon') represent primordial chaos in ancient Near Eastern cosmology. In Canaanite mythology, Yam was the sea god requiring divine restraint. The verb 'settest a watch' (sim mishmar, שִׂים מִשְׁמָר) means to stati...
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(12) **Am I a sea, or a whale . . .?**—This very hard verse it seems most reasonable to explain, if we can, from Scripture itself: *e.g., *in Jeremiah 5:22 we read, “Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea?" The writer was probably familiar with Egypt when the Nile, which is still called the sea, was carefully watched ...
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Ne 10:29-39. Points of the Covenant.
**29-37. to observe and do all the commandments, &c.--**This national covenant, besides containing a solemn pledge of obedience to the divine law generally, specified their engagement to some particular duties, which the character and exigency of the times stamped with great urgency and importance, and which may be summed up under the following heads: that...
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**Verses 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 therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation v...
Read full commentary →When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
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Job seeks relief in sleep, hoping his bed will 'comfort' (nacham, נָחַם) him and his couch will 'ease' (nasa, נָשָׂא, literally 'bear' or 'carry') his complaint. The Hebrew verb nasa typically means to lift, carry, or bear away—Job hopes sleep will carry away his grievance. This reveals the human tendency to seek escape from suffering through unconsciousness or temporary relief rather than resolut...
Read full commentary →Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Ne 10:29-39. Points of the Covenant.
**29-37. to observe and do all the commandments, &c.--**This national covenant, besides containing a solemn pledge of obedience to the divine law generally, specified their engagement to some particular duties, which the character and exigency of the times stamped with great urgency and importance, and which may be summed up under the following heads: that...
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**Verses 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 therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation v...
Read full commentary →Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
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God's persecution continues even in sleep—'thou scarest me with dreams' (chalam, חֲלוֹם) 'and terrifiest me through visions' (chizzayon, חִזָּיוֹן). The verb 'scarest' (chathath, חָתַת) means to terrify, dismay, or shatter. Even unconsciousness provides no sanctuary from divine assault. Ancient dream interpretation considered dreams as divine communication (Genesis 20:3, 28:12, Daniel 2), but Job ...
Read full commentary →Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Ne 10:29-39. Points of the Covenant.
**29-37. to observe and do all the commandments, &c.--**This national covenant, besides containing a solemn pledge of obedience to the divine law generally, specified their engagement to some particular duties, which the character and exigency of the times stamped with great urgency and importance, and which may be summed up under the following heads: that...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation v...
Read full commentary →So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. life: Heb. bones
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Job reaches the depths of despair: 'My soul chooseth strangling' (cheneq, חֶנֶק) 'and death rather than my life' (atsamot, עֲצָמוֹת, literally 'my bones' or 'my frame'). The verb 'chooseth' (bachar, בָּחַר) is the same used for God's election—Job 'elects' death over continued existence. This isn't mere death wish but considered preference for non-existence over unbearable suffering.<br><br>The hon...
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(15) **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, suicide.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Ne 10:29-39. Points of the Covenant.
**29-37. to observe and do all the commandments, &c.--**This national covenant, besides containing a solemn pledge of obedience to the divine law generally, specified their engagement to some particular duties, which the character and exigency of the times stamped with great urgency and importance, and which may be summed up under the following heads: that...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation v...
Read full commentary →I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
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Job rejects continued existence: 'I loathe it' (ma'as, מָאַס, to reject, despise, refuse). The same verb described his loathsome skin (verse 5); now he applies it to life itself. 'I would not live alway' (olam, עוֹלָם) uses the Hebrew word typically translated 'forever' or 'eternal'—Job refuses immortality in his current state. He pleads 'let me alone' (chadal, חָדַל, cease, desist) because his 'd...
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(16) **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 with a ray of comfort, “I shall not live for ever;” for this seems more in accordance with the context than the Authorised Version: “I *would *not live always.”
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Ne 10:29-39. Points of the Covenant.
**29-37. to observe and do all the commandments, &c.--**This national covenant, besides containing a solemn pledge of obedience to the divine law generally, specified their engagement to some particular duties, which the character and exigency of the times stamped with great urgency and importance, and which may be summed up under the following heads: that...
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**Verses 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 therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation v...
Read full commentary →What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
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<strong>What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?</strong><br><br>Job's anguished question inverts Psalm 8:4's worshipful wonder ("What is man, that thou art mindful of him?") into bitter complaint. The Hebrew <em>enosh</em> ("man") emphasizes human frailty and mortality, unlike <em>adam</em> (humanity) or <em>ish</em> (individual man). <em>Gad...
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(17, 18) **What is man . . .?**—Here is another point of contact with Psalm 8:5; but the spirit of the Psalmist was one of devout adoration, whereas that of Job is one of agony and desperation.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Ne 10:29-39. Points of the Covenant.
**29-37. to observe and do all the commandments, &c.--**This national covenant, besides containing a solemn pledge of obedience to the divine law generally, specified their engagement to some particular duties, which the character and exigency of the times stamped with great urgency and importance, and which may be summed up under the following heads: that...
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**Verses 17-21**
Job reasons with God concerning his dealings with man. But in the midst of this discourse, Job seems to have lifted up his thoughts to God with some faith and hope. Observe the concern he is in about his sins. The best men have to complain of sin; and the better they are, the more they will complain of it. God is the Preserver of our lives, and the Saviour of the souls of all ...
Read full commentary →And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
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Job asks why God bothers visiting humanity daily and testing 'him every moment.' The verb 'visit' (paqad, פָּקַד) means to attend to, inspect, or muster—it can denote blessing (Ruth 1:6) or judgment (Exodus 32:34). The verb 'magnify' (gadal, גָּדַל) means to make great or important. Job's question inverts Psalm 8:4: 'What is man, that thou art mindful of him?' But where David marvels at divine car...
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Ne 10:29-39. Points of the Covenant.
**29-37. to observe and do all the commandments, &c.--**This national covenant, besides containing a solemn pledge of obedience to the divine law generally, specified their engagement to some particular duties, which the character and exigency of the times stamped with great urgency and importance, and which may be summed up under the following heads: that...
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**Verses 17-21**
Job reasons with God concerning his dealings with man. But in the midst of this discourse, Job seems to have lifted up his thoughts to God with some faith and hope. Observe the concern he is in about his sins. The best men have to complain of sin; and the better they are, the more they will complain of it. God is the Preserver of our lives, and the Saviour of the souls of all ...
Read full commentary →How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
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Job demands respite: 'How long wilt thou not depart from me' (shur, שׁוּר) 'nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?' The idiom of swallowing spittle refers to the briefest moment—Job can't even complete a simple reflexive action before God's scrutiny overwhelms him again. The verb 'depart' (sha'ah, שָׁעָה) means to look away, regard, or turn attention toward—Job pleads for God to look awa...
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(19) **Till I swallow down my spittle.**—This is doubtless a proverbial expression, like “the twinkling of an eye,” or “while I fetch a breath.”
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Ne 10:29-39. Points of the Covenant.
**29-37. to observe and do all the commandments, &c.--**This national covenant, besides containing a solemn pledge of obedience to the divine law generally, specified their engagement to some particular duties, which the character and exigency of the times stamped with great urgency and importance, and which may be summed up under the following heads: that...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 17-21**
Job reasons with God concerning his dealings with man. But in the midst of this discourse, Job seems to have lifted up his thoughts to God with some faith and hope. Observe the concern he is in about his sins. The best men have to complain of sin; and the better they are, the more they will complain of it. God is the Preserver of our lives, and the Saviour of the souls of all ...
Read full commentary →I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
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Job asks God directly: 'I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men?' Even while maintaining innocence of great transgression, Job acknowledges human sinfulness. The question 'why hast thou set me as a mark against thee' captures the mystery of why God would target finite humans.
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers
(20) **I have sinned**—*i.e.*, “Putting the case that I have sinned, yet what then can I do unto Thee, O thou keeper of men? “with a possible allusion to Job 7:12, though the verb is not the same.
**O thou preserver of men.**—“Why hast Thou set me as a mark for Thee to expend all Thine arrows upon?” or, “Why hast Thou made me to be Thy stumbling-block, so that Thou ever comest into collision again...
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**38. the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes--**This was a prudential arrangement. The presence of a dignified priest would ensure the peaceful delivery of the tithes; at least his superintendence and influence would tend to prevent the commission of any wrong in the transaction, by the people deceiving the Levites, or the Levites defrauding the priests...
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**Verses 17-21**
Job reasons with God concerning his dealings with man. But in the midst of this discourse, Job seems to have lifted up his thoughts to God with some faith and hope. Observe the concern he is in about his sins. The best men have to complain of sin; and the better they are, the more they will complain of it. God is the Preserver of our lives, and the Saviour of the souls of all ...
Read full commentary →And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
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Job concludes his lament questioning why God doesn't forgive: 'Why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity?' The verbs 'pardon' (nasa, נָשָׂא) and 'take away' (avar, עָבַר) both involve removal or carrying away. Job acknowledges the possibility of sin ('my transgression,' pesha, פֶּשַׁע, rebellion; 'mine iniquity,' avon, עָוֹן, perversity) but questions why God doesn't s...
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(21) **And why dost thou not pardon my transgression?**—In Job’s belief, sin was the origin of all disaster, and so he thinks that if he were but pardoned his sorrows would pass away. Our Lord has not discouraged the belief when He has taught us that His miracle of healing the paralytic was accompanied with the assurance of forgiveness (*e.g., *Matthew 9:2; Mark 2:5; Luke 5:20).
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**39. and we will not forsake the house of our God--**This solemn pledge was repeated at the close of the covenant as an expression of the intense zeal by which the people at this time were animated for the glory and the worship of God. Under the pungent feelings of sorrow and repentance for their national sins, of which apostasy from the service of the true God was the chief, and under the yet fr...
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**Verses 17-21**
Job reasons with God concerning his dealings with man. But in the midst of this discourse, Job seems to have lifted up his thoughts to God with some faith and hope. Observe the concern he is in about his sins. The best men have to complain of sin; and the better they are, the more they will complain of it. God is the Preserver of our lives, and the Saviour of the souls of all ...
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