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Job is the most penetrating treatment of suffering, divine justice, and epistemological humility in the Hebrew Bible. Its probable date is pre-Mosaic (patriarchal setting), making it one of the oldest compositions in Scripture.
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- Primary Witness Text: Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 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. My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. 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. Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? And that t...
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Job is the most penetrating treatment of suffering, divine justice, and epistemological humility in the Hebrew Bible. Its probable date is pre-Mosaic (patriarchal setting), making it one of the oldest compositions in Scripture.
Job's friends represent the dominant ancient Near Eastern theodicy: suffering = sin. God's answer from the whirlwind (chs. 38-41) does not explain the suffering but confronts Job with the staggering scale and wisdom of the creation — demanding the creature's epistemological humility before the Creator. Job 19:25-27 ("I know that my Redeemer lives") stands as the OT's most personal resurrection confession.
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Job 7:1
Hebrew
הֲלֹא־צָבָא לֶאֱנוֹשׁ על־עֲלֵי־אָרֶץ וְכִימֵי שָׂכִיר יָמָֽיו׃halo'-tzava'-le'envosh-'l-'aley-'aretz-vekhiymey-shakhiyr-yamayv
KJV: Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
AKJV: Is there not an appointed time to man on earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
ASV: Is there not a warfare to man upon earth?
YLT: Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?
Exposition: Job 7:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:2
Hebrew
כְּעֶבֶד יִשְׁאַף־צֵל וּכְשָׂכִיר יְקַוֶּה פָעֳלֽוֹ׃khe'eved-yishe'af-tzel-vkheshakhiyr-yeqaveh-fa'olvo
KJV: As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
AKJV: As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as an hireling looks for the reward of his work:
ASV: As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow,
YLT: As a servant desireth the shadow, And as a hireling expecteth his wage,
Commentary WitnessJob 7:2Quoted commentary witness
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Job 7:2
Verse 2 Earnestly desireth the shadow - As a man who labors hard in the heat of the day earnestly desires to get under a shade, or wishes for the long evening shadows, that he may rest from his labor, get his day's wages, retire to his food, and then go to rest. Night is probably what is meant by the shadow; as in Virgil, Aen. iv., ver. 7: Humentemque Aurora polo dimoverat Umbram. "The morning had removed the humid shadow, i.e., night, from the world." Where Servius justly observes: Nihil interest, utrum Umbram an Noctem dicat: Nox enim Umbra terrae est, "It makes no difference whether he says shadow or night; for night is the shadow of the earth."
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Job 7:2
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- Virgil
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- Umbram
Exposition: Job 7:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:3
Hebrew
כֵּן הָנְחַלְתִּי לִי יַרְחֵי־שָׁוְא וְלֵילוֹת עָמָל מִנּוּ־לִֽי׃khen-hanechaletiy-liy-yarechey-shave'-veleylvot-'amal-minv-liy
KJV: So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
AKJV: So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
ASV: So am I made to possess months of misery,
YLT: So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.
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Job 7:3
Verse 3 So am I made to possess - But night is no relief to me, it is only a continuance of my anxiety and labor. I am like the hireling, I have my appointed labor for the day. I am like the soldier harassed by the enemy: I am obliged to be continually on the watch, always on the look out, with scarcely any rest.
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Exposition: Job 7:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:4
Hebrew
אִם־שָׁכַבְתִּי וְאָמַרְתִּי מָתַי אָקוּם וּמִדַּד־עָרֶב וְשָׂבַעְתִּי נְדֻדִים עֲדֵי־נָֽשֶׁף׃'im-shakhavetiy-ve'amaretiy-matay-'aqvm-vmidad-'arev-veshava'etiy-nedudiym-'adey-nashef
KJV: 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.
AKJV: When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro to the dawning of the day.
ASV: When I lie down, I say,
YLT: If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.
Commentary WitnessJob 7:4Quoted commentary witness
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Job 7:4
Verse 4 When I lie down - I have so little rest, that when I do lie down I long for the return of the light, that I may rise. Nothing can better depict the state of a man under continual afflictions, which afford him no respite, his days and his nights being spent in constant anguish, utterly unable to be in any one posture, so that he is continually changing his position in his bed, finding ease nowhere: thus, as himself expresses it, he is full of tossings.
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Exposition: Job 7:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: '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.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:5
Hebrew
לָבַשׁ בְּשָׂרִי רִמָּה וגיש וְגוּשׁ עָפָר עוֹרִי רָגַע וַיִּמָּאֵֽס׃lavash-veshariy-rimah-vgysh-vegvsh-'afar-'voriy-raga'-vayima'es
KJV: My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
AKJV: My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
ASV: My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust;
YLT: Clothed hath been my flesh with worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,
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Job 7:5
Verse 5 My flesh is clothed with worms - This is perhaps no figure, but is literally true: the miserably ulcerated state of his body, exposed to the open air, and in a state of great destitution, was favorable to those insects that sought such places in which to deposit their ova, which might have produced the animals in question. But the figure is too horrid to be farther illustrated. Clods of dust - I believe all the commentators have here missed the sense. I suppose Job to allude to those incrustations of indurated or dried pus, which are formed on the tops of pustules in a state of decay: such as the scales which fall from the pustules of the smallpox, when the patient becomes convalescent. Or, if Job's disease was the elephantiasis, it may refer to the furfuraceous scales which are continually falling off the body in that disorder. It is well known, that in this disease the skin becomes very rigid, so as to crack across, especially at the different joints, out of which fissures a loathsome ichor is continually exuding. To something like this the words may refer, My Skin is Broken, and become Loathsome.
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- Loathsome
Exposition: Job 7:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:6
Hebrew
יָמַי קַלּוּ מִנִּי־אָרֶג וַיִּכְלוּ בְּאֶפֶס תִּקְוָֽה׃yamay-qalv-miniy-'areg-vayikhelv-ve'efes-tiqevah
KJV: My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
AKJV: My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
ASV: My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
YLT: My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
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Job 7:6
Verse 6 Swifter than a weaver's shuttle - The word ארג areg signifies rather the weaver than his shuttle. And it has been doubted whether any such instrument were in use in the days of Job. Dr. Russell, in his account of Aleppo, shows that though they wove many kinds of curious cloth, yet no shuttle was used, as they conducted every thread of the woof by their fingers. That some such instrument as the shuttle was in use from time immemorial, there can be no doubt: and it is certain that such an instrument must have been in the view of Job, without which the figure would lose its expression and force. In almost every nation the whole of human existence has been compared to a web; and the principle of life, through the continual succession of moments, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, to a thread woven through that web. Hence arose the fable of the Parcae or Fates, called also the Destinies or Fatal Sisters. They were the daughters of Erebus and Nox, darkness and night; and were three in number, and named Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. Clotho held the distaff; Lachesis spun off the thread; and Atropos cut it off with her scissors, when it was determined that life should end. Job represents the thread of his life as being spun out with great rapidity and tenuity, and about to be cut off. And are spent without hope - Expectation of future good was at an end; hope of the alleviation of his miseries no longer existed. The hope of future good is the balm of life: where that is not, there is despair; where despair is, there is hell. The fable above mentioned is referred to by Virgil, Ecl. iv., ver. 46, but is there applied to time: - Talia Secla, suis dixerunt, currite, fusis Concordes stabili fatorum numine Parcae. "The Fates, when they this happy thread have spun Shall bless the sacred clue, and bid it smoothly run." Dryden. Isaiah uses the same figure, Isa 38:12 : - My life is cut off, as by the weaver: He will sever me from the loom. In the course of the day thou wilt finish my web. Lowth. Coverdale translates thus: My dayes passe over more spedely then a weaver can weave out his webbe and are gone or I am awarre. A fine example of this figure is found in the Teemour Nameh, which I shall give in Mr. Good's translation: - "Praise be to God, who hath woven the web of human affairs in the loom of his will and of his wisdom, and hath made waves of times and of seasons to flow from the fountain of his providence into the ocean of his power." The simile is fine, and elegantly expressed.
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Job 7:6
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- Isa 38:12
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- Talia Secla
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- Lowth
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Exposition: Job 7:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:7
Hebrew
זְכֹר כִּי־רוּחַ חַיָּי לֹא־תָשׁוּב עֵינִי לִרְאוֹת טֽוֹב׃zekhor-khiy-rvcha-chayay-lo'-tashvv-'eyniy-lire'vot-tvov
KJV: O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
AKJV: O remember that my life is wind: my eye shall no more see good.
ASV: Oh remember that my life is a breath:
YLT: Remember Thou that my life is a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.
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Job 7:7
Verse 7 My life is wind - Mr. Good translates, "O remember that, if my life pass away, mine eye shall turn no more to scenes of goodness;" which he paraphrases thus: "O remember that, if my life pass away, never more shall I witness those scenes of Divine favor, never more adore thee for those proofs of unmerited mercy, which till now have been so perpetually bestowed on me." I think the common translation gives a very good sense.
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Exposition: Job 7:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:8
Hebrew
לֹֽא־תְשׁוּרֵנִי עֵין רֹאִי עֵינֶיךָ בִּי וְאֵינֶֽנִּי׃lo'-teshvreniy-'eyn-ro'iy-'eyneykha-viy-ve'eyneniy
KJV: The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
AKJV: The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no more: your eyes are on me, and I am not.
ASV: The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more;
YLT: The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes are upon me--and I am not.
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Job 7:8
Verse 8 Shall see me no more - If I die in my present state, with all this load of undeserved odium which is cast upon me by my friends, I shall never have an opportunity of vindicating my character, and regaining the good opinion of mankind. Thine eyes are upon one, and I am not - Thou canst look me into nothing. Or, Let thine eye be upon me as judged to death, and I shall immediately cease to live among men.
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Exposition: Job 7:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:9
Hebrew
כָּלָה עָנָן וַיֵּלַךְ כֵּן יוֹרֵד שְׁאוֹל לֹא יַעֲלֽ͏ֶה׃khalah-'anan-vayelakhe-khen-yvored-she'vol-lo'-ya'aleh
KJV: As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
AKJV: As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more.
ASV: As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away,
YLT: Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.
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Job 7:9
Verse 9 As the cloud is consumed - As the cloud is dissipated, so is the breath of those that go down to the grave. As that cloud shall never return, so shall it be with the dead; they return no more to sojourn with the living. See on the following verses.
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Exposition: Job 7:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:10
Hebrew
לֹא־יָשׁוּב עוֹד לְבֵיתוֹ וְלֹא־יַכִּירֶנּוּ עוֹד מְקֹמֽוֹ׃lo'-yashvv-'vod-leveytvo-velo'-yakhiyrenv-'vod-meqomvo
KJV: He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
AKJV: He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
ASV: He shall return no more to his house,
YLT: He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.
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Job 7:10
Verse 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more - He does not mean that he shall be annihilated but that he shall never more become an inhabitant of the earth. The word שאול, which we properly enough translate grave, here signifies also the state of the dead, hades, and sometimes any deep pit, or even hell itself.
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Exposition: Job 7:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:11
Hebrew
גַּם־אֲנִי לֹא אֶחֱשָׂךְ פִּי אֲֽדַבְּרָה בְּצַר רוּחִי אָשִׂיחָה בְּמַר נַפְשִֽׁי׃gam-'aniy-lo'-'echeshakhe-fiy-'adaverah-vetzar-rvchiy-'ashiychah-vemar-nafeshiy
KJV: 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.
AKJV: 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.
ASV: Therefore I will not refrain my mouth;
YLT: Also I--I withhold not my mouth--I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.
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Job 7:11
Job 7:11 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: '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.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Job 7:11
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 7:11
Exposition: Job 7:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: '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.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:12
Hebrew
הֲֽיָם־אָנִי אִם־תַּנִּין כִּֽי־תָשִׂים עָלַי מִשְׁמָֽר׃hayam-'aniy-'im-taniyn-khiy-tashiym-'alay-mishemar
KJV: Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
AKJV: Am I a sea, or a whale, that you set a watch over me?
ASV: Am I a sea, or a sea-monster,
YLT: A sea- monster am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?
Commentary WitnessJob 7:12Quoted commentary witness
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Job 7:12
Verse 12 Am I a sea, or a whale - "Am I condemned as the Egyptians were who were drowned in the Red Sea? or am I as Pharaoh, who was drowned in it in his sins, that thou settest a keeper over me?" Targum. Am I as dangerous as the sea, that I should be encompassed about with barriers, lest I should hurt mankind? Am I like an ungovernable wild beast or dragon, that I must be put under locks and bars? I think our own version less exceptionable than any other hitherto given of this verse. The meaning is sufficiently plain. Job was hedged about and shut in with insuperable difficulties of various kinds; he was entangled as a wild beast in a net; the more he struggled, the more he lost his strength, and the less probability there was of his being extricated from his present situation. The sea is shut in with barriers, over which it cannot pass; for God has "placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it," Jer 5:22. "For thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth;" Psa 104:9. "Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, and brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors; and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed;" Job 38:8. Here then is Job's allusion: the bounds, doors, garment, swaddling bands, decreed place, and bars, are the watchers or keepers which God has set to prevent the sea from overflowing the earth; so Job's afflictions and distresses were the bounds and bars which God had apparently set to prevent him from injuring his fellow creatures. At least Job, in his complaint, so takes it. Am I like the sea, which thou hast imprisoned within bounds, ready to overwhelm and destroy the country? or am I like a dragon, which must be cooped up in the same way, that it may not have the power to kill and destroy? Surely in my prosperity I gave no evidence of such a disposition; therefore should not be treated as a man dangerous to society. In this Job shows that he will not refrain his mouth.
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Canonical locus
Job 7:12
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Jer 5:22
- Job 38:8
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Targum
- Pharaoh
- Job
Exposition: Job 7:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:13
Hebrew
כִּֽי־אָמַרְתִּי תְּנַחֲמֵנִי עַרְשִׂי יִשָּׂא בְשִׂיחִי מִשְׁכָּבִֽי׃khiy-'amaretiy-tenachameniy-'areshiy-yisha'-veshiychiy-mishekhaviy
KJV: When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
AKJV: When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;
ASV: When I say, My bed shall comfort me,
YLT: When I said, `My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 7:13Generated editorial synthesis
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Job 7:13
Job 7:13 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.
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Job 7:13
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 7:13
Exposition: Job 7:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:14
Hebrew
וְחִתַּתַּנִי בַחֲלֹמוֹת וּֽמֵחֶזְיֹנוֹת תְּבַעֲתַֽנִּי׃vechitataniy-vachalomvot-vmechezeyonvot-teva'ataniy
KJV: Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
AKJV: Then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
ASV: Then thou scarest me with dreams,
YLT: And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me,
Commentary WitnessJob 7:14Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 7:14
Verse 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, he was suddenly roused and alarmed by those appalling images. He needed rest by sleep, but was afraid to close his eyes because of the horrid images which were presented to his imagination. Could there be a state more deplorable than this?
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 7:14
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Apologetics Bible source bundle
Exposition: Job 7:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:15
Hebrew
וַתִּבְחַר מַחֲנָק נַפְשִׁי מָוֶת מֵֽעַצְמוֹתָֽי׃vativechar-machanaq-nafeshiy-mavet-me'atzemvotay
KJV: So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
AKJV: So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.
ASV: So that my soul chooseth strangling,
YLT: And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.
Commentary WitnessJob 7:15Quoted commentary witness
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Job 7:15
Verse 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; and, distressing as this was, he would prefer death by this means to any longer life in such miseries.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
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Job 7:15
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Exposition: Job 7:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:16
Hebrew
מָאַסְתִּי לֹא־לְעֹלָם אֶֽחְיֶה חֲדַל מִמֶּנִּי כִּי־הֶבֶל יָמָֽי׃ma'asetiy-lo'-le'olam-'echeyeh-chadal-mimeniy-khiy-hevel-yamay
KJV: I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
AKJV: I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
ASV: I loathe my life; I would not live alway:
YLT: I have wasted away--not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days are vanity.
Commentary WitnessJob 7:16Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 7:16
Verse 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 which I now undergo, I would despise the offer and spurn the boon. Mr. Good is not satisfied with our common version, and has adopted the following, which in his notes he endeavors to illustrate and defend: Job 7:15 So that my soul coveteth suffocation,And death in comparison with my suffering. Job 7:16 No longer would I live! O, release me!How are my days vanity!
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 7:16
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 7:15
- Job 7:16
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Life
- Mr
Exposition: Job 7:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:17
Hebrew
מָֽה־אֱנוֹשׁ כִּי תְגַדְּלֶנּוּ וְכִי־תָשִׁית אֵלָיו לִבֶּֽךָ׃mah-'envosh-khiy-tegadelenv-vekhiy-tashiyt-'elayv-livekha
KJV: What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
AKJV: What is man, that you should magnify him? and that you should set your heart on him?
ASV: What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him,
YLT: What is man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?
Commentary WitnessJob 7:17Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 7:17
Verse 17 What is man that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? - Two different ideas have been drawn from these words: - 1. Man is not worth thy notice; why therefore dost thou contend with him? 2. How astonishing is thy kindness that thou shouldest fix thy heart - thy strongest affections, on such a poor, base, vile, impotent creature as man, (אנוש enosh), that thou shouldest so highly exalt him beyond all other creatures, and mark him with the most particular notice of thy providence and grace! The paraphrase of Calmet is as follows: "Does man, such as he at present is, merit thy attention! What is man that God should make it his business to examine, try, prove, and afflict him? Is it not doing him too much honor to think thus seriously about him? O Lord! I am not worthy that thou shouldest concern thyself about me!"
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 7:17
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Ovid
Exposition: Job 7:17 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:18
Hebrew
וַתִּפְקְדֶנּוּ לִבְקָרִים לִרְגָעִים תִּבְחָנֶֽנּוּ׃vatifeqedenv-liveqariym-lirega'iym-tivechanenv
KJV: And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
AKJV: And that you should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
ASV: And that thou shouldest visit him every morning,
YLT: And inspectest him in the mornings, In the evenings dost try him?
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 7:18Generated editorial synthesis
Commentary Witness (Generated)
Job 7:18
Job 7:18 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.
Canonical locus
Job 7:18
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 7:18
Exposition: Job 7:18 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:19
Hebrew
כַּמָּה לֹא־תִשְׁעֶה מִמֶּנִּי לֹֽא־תַרְפֵּנִי עַד־בִּלְעִי רֻקִּֽי׃khamah-lo'-tishe'eh-mimeniy-lo'-tarefeniy-'ad-vile'iy-ruqiy
KJV: How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
AKJV: How long will you not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
ASV: How long wilt thou not look away from me,
YLT: How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle.
Commentary WitnessJob 7:19Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 7:19
Verse 19 Till I swallow down my spittle? - This is a proverbial expression, and exists among the Arabs to the present day; the very language being nearly the same. It signifies the same as, Let me draw my breath; give me a moment's space; let me have even the twinkling of an eye. I am urged by my sufferings to continue my complaint; but my strength is exhausted, my mouth dry with speaking. Suspend my sufferings even for so short a space as is necessary to swallow my spittle, that my parched tongue may be moistened, so that I may renew my complaint.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 7:19
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Exposition: Job 7:19 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:20
Hebrew
חָטָאתִי מָה אֶפְעַל ׀ לָךְ נֹצֵר הָאָדָם לָמָה שַׂמְתַּנִי לְמִפְגָּע לָךְ וָאֶהְיֶה עָלַי לְמַשָּֽׂא׃chata'tiy-mah-'efe'al- -lakhe-notzer-ha'adam-lamah-shametaniy-lemifega'-lakhe-va'eheyeh-'alay-lemasha'
KJV: 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?
AKJV: I have sinned; what shall I do to you, O you preserver of men? why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?
ASV: If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men?
YLT: I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself--and what?
Commentary WitnessJob 7:20Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 7:20
Verse 20 I have sinned; what shall I do - Dr. Kennicott contends that these words are spoken to Eliphaz, and not to God, and would paraphrase them thus: "You say I must have been a sinner. What then? I have not sinned against thee, O thou spy upon mankind! Why hast thou set up me as a butt or mark to shoot at? Why am I become a burden unto thee? Why not rather overlook my transgression, and pass by mine iniquity? I am now sinking to the dust! To-morrow, perhaps, I shall be sought in vain!" See his vindication of Job at the end of these notes on this book. Others consider the address as made to God. Taken in this light, the sense is plain enough. Those who suppose that the address is made to God, translate the Job 7:20 thus: "Be it that I have sinned, what injury can I do unto thee, O thou Observer of man? Why hast thou set me up as a mark for thee, and why am I made a burden to thee?" The Septuagint is thus: Ει εγω ἡμαρτον, τι δυνησομαι πραξαι, ὁ επισταμενος τον νουν των ανθρωπων; If I have sinned, what can I do, O thou who knowest the mind of men? Thou knowest that it is impossible for me to make any restitution. I cannot blot out my offenses; but whether I have sinned so as to bring all these calamities upon me, thou knowest, who searchest the hearts of men.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 7:20
Source lane
Apologetics Bible source bundle
Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 7:20
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Septuagint
- Dr
- Eliphaz
Exposition: Job 7:20 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: '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?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 7:21
Hebrew
וּמֶה ׀ לֹא־תִשָּׂא פִשְׁעִי וְתַעֲבִיר אֶת־עֲוֺנִי כִּֽי־עַתָּה לֶעָפָר אֶשְׁכָּב וְשִׁחֲרְתַּנִי וְאֵינֶֽנִּי׃vmeh- -lo'-tisha'-fishe'iy-veta'aviyr-'et-'avniy-khiy-'atah-le'afar-'eshekhav-veshicharetaniy-ve'eyneniy
KJV: 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.
AKJV: And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
ASV: And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity?
YLT: Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me--and I am not!
Commentary WitnessJob 7:21Quoted commentary witness
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Job 7:21
Verse 21 And why dost thou not pardon - These words are spoken after the manner of men. If thou have any design to save me, if I have sinned, why dost thou not pardon my transgression, as thou seest that I am a dying man; and to-morrow morning thou mayest seek me to do me good, but in all probability I shall then be no more, and all thy kind thoughts towards me shall be unavailing? If I have sinned, then why should not I have a part in that mercy that flows so freely to all mankind? That Job does not criminate himself here, as our text intimates, is evident enough from his own repeated assertions of his innocence. And it is most certain that Bildad, who immediately answers, did not consider him as criminating but as justifying himself; and this is the very ground on which he takes up the subject. Were we to admit the contrary, we should find strange inconsistencies, if not contradictions, in Job's speeches: on such a ground the controversy must have immediately terminated, as he would then have acknowledged that of which his friends accused him; and here the book of Job would have ended.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 7:21
Source lane
Apologetics Bible source bundle
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Bildad
Exposition: Job 7:21 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: '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.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Citation trailOpen the commentary counts, references, and named sources.
Scholarly apparatus
Commentary citation index
This chapter now surfaces commentary as quoted witness material with an explicit citation trail. The index below gathers the canonical references and named authorities detected inside the commentary layer for faster academic review.
Direct commentary witnesses
18
Generated editorial witnesses
3
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Canonical references surfaced in commentary
- Job 7:1-6
- Job 7:7-12
- Job 7:13-16
- Job 7:17-21
- Job 7:1
- Job 7:2
- Job 7:3
- Job 7:4
- Job 7:5
- Isa 38:12
- Job 7:6
- Job 7:7
- Job 7:8
- Job 7:9
- Job 7:10
- Job 7:11
- Jer 5:22
- Job 38:8
- Job 7:12
- Job 7:13
- Job 7:14
- Job 7:15
- Job 7:16
- Job 7:17
- Job 7:18
- Job 7:19
- Job 7:20
- Job 7:21
Named authorities or texts surfaced in commentary
- Septuagint
- Vulgate
- The Hebrew
- The Septuagint
- The Vulgate
- French Bible
- Coverdale
- Carmarden
- Rouen
- Arabic
- Now
- Bib
- Ital
- Lamb
- Virgil
- Aen
- Umbram
- Or
- Broken
- Loathsome
- Ovid
- Dryden
- Job
- Dr
- Russell
- Aleppo
- Fates
- Fatal Sisters
- Nox
- Clotho
- Lachesis
- Atropos
- Ecl
- Talia Secla
- Parcae
- The Fates
- Lowth
- Teemour Nameh
- Mr
- Targum
- Pharaoh
- Life
- Eliphaz
- Bildad
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Genesis
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Exodus
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Leviticus
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Numbers
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Deuteronomy
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Joshua
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Judges
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Ruth
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1 Samuel
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2 Samuel
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1 Kings
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2 Kings
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1 Chronicles
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2 Chronicles
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Ezra
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Nehemiah
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Esther
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Job
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Psalms
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Proverbs
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Ecclesiastes
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Song of Solomon
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Isaiah
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Jeremiah
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Lamentations
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Ezekiel
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Daniel
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Hosea
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Joel
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Amos
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Obadiah
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Jonah
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Micah
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Nahum
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Habakkuk
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Zephaniah
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Haggai
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Zechariah
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Malachi
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Matthew
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Mark
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Luke
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John
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Acts
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Romans
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1 Corinthians
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2 Corinthians
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Galatians
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Ephesians
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Philippians
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Colossians
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1 Thessalonians
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2 Thessalonians
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1 Timothy
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2 Timothy
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Titus
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Philemon
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Hebrews
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James
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1 Peter
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2 Peter
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1 John
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2 John
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3 John
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Jude
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Revelation
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Commentary Witness
Job 7:1
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Canonical locus
Job 7:1
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