Job 7:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

Job 7:1 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 14:5-6
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; …
Psalms 39:4
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Job 5:7
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 14:13-14
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! …
Isaiah 40:2
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.

Topics

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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 desir…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Job 7:1-21. Job Excuses His Desire for Death. 1. appointed time--better, “a warfare,” hard conflict with evil (so in Is 40:2; Da 10:1). Translate it “appointed time” (Job 14:14). Job reverts to the sad picture of man, however great, which he had drawn (Job 3:14), and details in this chapter the miseries which his friends will see, if, according to his request (Job 6:28), they will look on him. Eve…