1Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
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Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; …
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! …
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Job is here excusing what he could not justify, even his inordinate desire of death. Why should he not wish for the termination of life, which would be the termination of his miseries? To enforce this reason he argues, I. From the general condition of man upon earth (Job 7:1): “He is of few days, and full of trouble . Every man must die shortly, and every man has some reason (more or less) to desi…
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