Job 7:2

Job 7:2

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Job: My Suffering Is Comfortless

1 “Is there not ^aa time of hard service for man on earth?
Are not his days also like the days of a hired man?

2 Like a servant who¹ earnestly desires the shade,
And like a hired man who eagerly looks for his wages,

3 So I have been allotted ^amonths of futility,
And wearisome nights have been appointed to me.

4 ^aWhen I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise,
And the night be ended?’
For I have had my fill of tossing till dawn.

5 My flesh is ^acaked with worms and dust,
My skin is cracked and breaks out afresh.

6 “My^a days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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earnestly desireth—Hebrew, "pants for the [evening] shadow." Easterners measure time by the length of their shadow. If the servant longs for the evening when his wages are paid, why may not Job long for the close of his hard service, when he shall enter on his "reward?" This proves that Job did not, as many maintain, regard the grave as a mere sleep.

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Job 7:2:**

Job 14:7
Proverbs 21:6
Amos 8:4

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