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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Job 7

Chapter 7

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

Is there

14:5,13,14 Psalms 39:4 Isaiah 38:5 John 11:9,10

an appointed time

or, a warfare.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

like the days

14:6 Leviticus 25:50 Deuteronomy 15:18 Isaiah 21:16 Matthew 20:1-15

As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

ernestly desireth

Heb. gapeth after.

Psalms 119:131 143:6

the shadow

Jeremiah 6:4

as an hireling

Leviticus 19:13 Deuteronomy 24:15 Malachi 3:5 James 5:4

So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

months of

29:2 Psalms 6:6 39:5 Ecclesiastes 1:14

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

When

13,14 17:12 30:17 Deuteronomy 28:67 Psalms 6:6 77:4 130:6

night, etc

Heb. evening be measured. tossings.

Psalms 109:23 Isaiah 54:11

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

flesh

2:7,8 17:14 19:26 24:20 30:18,19 Psalms 38:5-7 Isaiah 1:6 14:11 Acts 12:23

loathsome

9:31 Isaiah 66:24 Ezekiel 20:43

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

swifter

9:25 16:22 17:11 Psalms 90:5,6 102:11 103:15,16 144:4 Isaiah 38:12,13 40:6,7 James 1:11 4:14 1 Peter 1:24

without hope

6:11 17:15 Proverbs 14:32 Jeremiah 2:25 Ephesians 2:12 1 Peter 1:13

O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

remember

10:9 Genesis 42:36 Nehemiah 1:8 Psalms 74:18,22 89:47,50 Jeremiah 15:15

my life

Psalms 78:39 James 4:14

no more see

Heb. not return to see, that is, to enjoy.

10:21,22

The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

The eye

20:9 Psalms 37:36

thine eyes

13:27 14:3 Psalms 39:11 90:8,9

I am not

that is, I can live no longer.

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

the cloud

37:11

he

10:21 14:10-14 16:22 2 Samuel 12:23 14:14 Psalms 39:13 Isaiah 38:11

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

shall return

8:18 20:9 Psalms 103:16

Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

I will not

6:26 10:1 13:13 16:6 21:3 Psalms 39:3 40:9

the anguish

Genesis 42:21 2 Kings 4:27,28 Matthew 26:37,38 Luke 22:44 2 Corinthians 2:4

the bitterness

10:15 21:25 1 Samuel 1:10 Isaiah 38:15,17

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

I a sea

17 38:6-11 Lamentations 3:7

a whale

41:1-34

When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

My bed

3,4 9:27,28 Psalms 6:6 77:4

Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

thou scarest

Genesis 40:5-7 41:8 Judges 7:13,14 Daniel 2:1 Matthew 27:19

So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

chooseth

2 Samuel 17:23 Matthew 27:5

life

Heb. bones.

I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

I loathe it

3:20-22 6:9 10:1 Genesis 27:46 1 Kings 19:4 Jonah 4:3,8

let me alone

10:20 14:6 Psalms 39:10,13

my days

Psalms 62:9 78:33 144:4 Ecclesiastes 6:11,12

What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

What is man

Psalms 8:4 144:3 Hebrews 2:6

magnify

12 1 Samuel 24:14

set thine

34:14,15

And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

visit

Exodus 20:5 32:34 Isaiah 26:14 38:12,13

try

Genesis 22:1 Deuteronomy 8:16 Jeremiah 9:7 Daniel 12:10 Zechariah 13:9 1 Peter 1:7

How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

How long

9:18 Psalms 6:3 13:1-3 94:3 Revelation 6:10

I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

I have sinned

9:29-31 13:26 14:16 22:5 31:33 33:9,27 Psalms 80:4

O thou preserver

Nehemiah 9:6 Psalms 36:6

why hast

12 6:4 16:12-14 Psalms 21:12 Lamentations 3:12

I am

11 3:24

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

why dost

10:14 13:23,24 Isaiah 64:9 Lamentations 3:42-44 5:20-22

take away

2 Samuel 24:10 Micah 7:18,19 Hosea 14:2 John 1:29 Titus 2:14 1 John 1:9 3:5

sleep

3:13 17:14 21:32,33 Ecclesiastes 12:7 Isaiah 26:19 Daniel 12:2

in the morning

but I shall not be

Psalms 37:36 103:15