Job 7:7 Douay-Rheims

Remember that my life is but wind, and my eyes shall not return to see good things.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1871 Reformed

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 (Ecc 11:7); so Hezekiah (Isa 38:11). Grace rises above nature (Co2 5:8).

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1871 · Job 7:7

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