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Job 7:7
7“Remember that my life is but breath [a puff of wind, a sigh]; My eye will not see good again.
Job 7:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
- New International Version (NIV)Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Oh, remember that my life is a breath! My eye will never again see good.
Context of Job 7:7
5My body is clothed with worms and a crust of dust; My skin is hardened [and broken and loathsome], and [breaks out and] runs. 6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope. “Remember that my life is but breath [a puff of wind, a sigh]; My eye will not see good again. 8The eye of him who sees me [now] will see me no more; Your eyes will be upon me, but I will not be. 9As a cloud vanishes and is gone, So he who goes down to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) does not come up.
Read all of Job 7Job 7:7 word by word
זְ֭כֹר כִּי־ר֣וּחַ חַיָּ֑י לֹא־תָשׁ֥וּב עֵ֝ינִ֗י לִרְא֥וֹת טֽוֹב׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 7:7
- Job 10:9Remember now, that You have made me as clay; So will You turn me into dust again?
- Genesis 42:36Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me [by causing the loss] of my children. Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin [from me]. All these things are [working] against me.”
- Nehemiah 1:8Please remember the word which You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful and violate your obligations to Me I will scatter you [abroad] among the peoples;
- Psalms 74:18Remember this, O Lord, the enemy has scoffed, And a foolish and impious people has spurned Your name.
- Psalms 89:47Remember how fleeting my lifetime is; For what vanity, [for what emptiness, for what futility, for what wisp of smoke] You have created all the sons of men!
- Jeremiah 15:15O Lord, You know and understand; Remember me [thoughtfully], take notice of me, take vengeance for me on my persecutors. Do not, in view of Your patience, take me away; Know that for Your sake I endure [continual] rebuke and dishonor.
- Psalms 78:39For He [graciously] remembered that they were mere [human] flesh, A wind that goes and does not return.
- James 4:14Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air].
- Job 10:21Before I go—and I shall not return— To the land of darkness and the deep shadow [of death],
Commentaries on Job 7:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7My 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7O remember - This is evidently an address to God. In the anguish of his soul Job turns his eye and his heart to his Maker, and urges reasons why he should close his life. The extent of his sufferings, and the certainty that he must die Job 7:9-10, are the reasons on which he dwells why his life should be closed, and he released. The language is respectful, but it is the expression of deep anguish and sorrow. That my life is wind - Life is often compared…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-16Verses 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 vanishes away. Glorified saints shall return no more to the cares…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7People who ask God to remember usually seek his promised mercy (Psalms 35:6; 106:4). Job's statement that life is but a breath (Hebrew ruakh) meant he was either close to death or that life is like the passing of the wind (Psalm 39:9, 11).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. Address to God. Wind--a picture of evanescence (Psa 78:39). shall no more see--rather, "shall no more return to see good." This change from the different wish in Job 3:17, &c., is most true to nature. He is now in a softer mood; a beam from former days of prosperity falling upon memory and the thought of the unseen world, where one is seen no more (Job 7:8), drew from him an expression of regret at leaving this world of light (Ec 11:7); so Hezekiah (Is…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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