New American Standard Bible 2020
Job 7:7
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 maggots and a crust of dirt, My skin hardens and oozes. 6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And they come to an end without hope. “Remember that my life is a mere breath; My eye will not see goodness again. 8The eye of him who sees me will no longer look at me; Your eyes will be on me, but I will not exist. 9When a cloud vanishes, it is gone; In the same way one who goes down to Sheol 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
Cross-references for Job 7:7
- Job 10:9Remember that You have made me as clay; Yet would You turn me into dust again?
- Genesis 42:36And their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons: Joseph is gone, and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin; all these things are against me.”
- Nehemiah 1:8Remember, please, the word which You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples;
- Psalms 74:18Remember this, Lord, that the enemy has taunted You, And a foolish people has treated Your name disrespectfully.
- Psalms 89:47Remember what my lifespan is; For what futility You have created all the sons of mankind!
- Jeremiah 15:15You know, Lord; Remember me, take notice of me, And take vengeance for me on my persecutors. Do not, in view of Your patience, take me away; Know that for Your sake I endure reproach.
- Psalms 78:39So He remembered that they were only flesh, A wind that passes and does not return.
- James 4:14Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. For you are just a vapor that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away.
- Job 10:21Before I go--and I shall not return-- To the land of darkness and deep shadow,
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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