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.
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.
the shadow
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.
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
no more see
Heb. not return to see, that is, to enjoy.
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
The eye
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
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
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
a whale
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
My bed
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
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
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
magnify
set thine
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
why hast
12 6.4 16.12-14 Psalms 21.12 Lamentations 3.12
I am
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