Job 7
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 7, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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{Is there} not an appointed time to man upon earth? {are not} his days also like the days of an hireling? {an appointed...: or, a warfare}
Job 7:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for {the reward of} his work: {earnestly...: Heb. gapeth after}
Job 7:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Job 7:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {the night...: Heb. the evening be measured?}
Job 7:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
Job 7:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 7:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O remember that my life {is} wind: mine eye shall no more see good. {shall...: Heb. shall not return} {see: to see, that is, to enjoy}
Job 7:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no {more}: thine eyes {are} upon me, and I {am} not. {I am...: that is, I can live no longer}
Job 7:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{As} the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no {more}.
Job 7:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Job 7:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Job 7:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Am} I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
Job 7:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Job 7:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
Job 7:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So that my soul chooseth strangling, {and} death rather than my life. {life: Heb. bones}
Job 7:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I loathe {it}; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days {are} vanity.
Job 7:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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What {is} man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
Job 7:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And {that} thou shouldest visit him every morning, {and} try him every moment?
Job 7:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Job 7:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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?
Job 7:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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}.
Job 7:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.