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Job 7:7
7Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good.
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 flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates. 6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good. 8The eye of him that hath seen me shall behold me no [more]: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. 9The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.
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זְ֭כֹר כִּי־ר֣וּחַ חַיָּ֑י לֹא־תָשׁ֥וּב עֵ֝ינִ֗י לִרְא֥וֹת טֽוֹב׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 7:7
- Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.
- Genesis 42:36And Jacob their father said to them, Ye have bereaved me of children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin! All these things are against me.
- Nehemiah 1:8Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the peoples;
- Psalms 74:18Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.
- Psalms 89:47Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?
- Jeremiah 15:15Jehovah, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; in thy long-suffering take me not away: know that for thy sake I bear reproach.
- Psalms 78:39And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.
- James 4:14ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ([for] what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)
- Job 10:21Before I go, and never to return, — to the land of darkness and the 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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