Bible Commentaries
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Job 7
Is there not. ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
an appointed time = a warfare. Compare Job 14:14.
man = mortal man.
are not. ? Figure of speech Erotesis.
the shadow = the shade: i.e. daytime.
work. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect), App-6, for the wages or reward gained by work: i.e. evening.
dawning. Hebrew. nesheph. A Homonym, having two meanings: (1) as here, daylight; (2) darkness. See notes on 1 Samuel 30:17. 2 Kings 7:5, 2 Kings 7:7.
Am I. ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
whale = a sea-monster.
watch = a bound. Compare Jeremiah 6:22.
over = about, as in Job 13:27. Proverbs 8:29.
loathe [it] = loathe [life], Job 7:16 is parenthetical, being the thought of suicide, which intrudes itself upon him.
every morning. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Part), App-6, put for all time: i.e. continuously.
men. Hebrew. "adam. App-14.
to myself. One of the emendations of the Sopherim (App-33), by which the primitive text "unto Thee" was altered to the current text (by the omission of the last letter) to "unto myself".
transgression. Hebrew pasha".
iniquity. Hebrew. "avah.
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