6Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
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How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? …
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)We are here led to think, I. Of the original of human life. God is indeed its great original, for he breathed into man the breath of life and in him we live; but we date it from our birth, and thence we must date both its frailty and its pollution. 1. Its frailty: Man, that is born of a woman, is therefore of few days , Job 14:1. This may refer to the first woman, who was called Eve , because she…
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