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Job 7:7
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Remember that my life is but a breath.My eye will never again see anything good.
Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
"Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.
Remember, God, that my life is only a breath. My eyes will never see happy times again.
Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.
"Remember that my life is but breath [a puff of wind, a sigh]; My eye will not see good again.
"Remember that my life is a mere breath; My eye will not see goodness again.
Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
Remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall not returne to see pleasure.
"Remember that my life is but wind;My eye will not again see good.
Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
I beg you, God, don't forget! My life is just a breath, and trouble lies ahead.
"Remember that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never again see good times.
Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good.
God, remember, my life is like a breath. I will not get a second chance to enjoy it.
O remember that the spirit is still alive; even yet my eye shall again see good.
Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will not return to see good.
Remember that my life is a breath; my eyes shall not return to see good.
O remembre, that my life is but a wynde, ad that myne eye shal nomore se the pleasures
Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.
O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.
O remember that my lyfe is but a winde, and that myne eye shall no more see pleasures:
O remember that my life is a breath; mine eye shall no more see good.
O remember that my life is winde: mine eye shall no more see good.
Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shalt not yet again see good.
Oh remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
God, haue thou mynde, for my lijf is wynde, and myn iye schal not turne ayen, that it se goodis.
Oh remember that my life is a breath: My eye shall no more see good.
O remember that my life [is] wind: my eye will no more see good.
Oh, remember that my life is a breath! My eye will never again see good.
O God, remember that my life is but a breath, and I will never again feel happiness.
"Remember that my life is only a breath. My eye will not again see good.
"Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.
Remember thou, that, a wind, is my life, not again shall mine eye see blessing:
Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.
"Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.
Remember Thou that my life [is] a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.
"God, don't forget that I'm only a puff of air! These eyes have had their last look at goodness. And your eyes have seen the last of me; even while you're looking, there'll be nothing left to look at. When a cloud evaporates, it's gone for good; those who go to the grave never come back. They don't return to visit their families; never again will friends drop in for coffee.
"Remember that my life is but breath; My eye will not again see good.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
remember: Job 10:9, Genesis 42:36, Nehemiah 1:8, Psalms 74:18, Psalms 74:22, Psalms 89:47, Psalms 89:50, Jeremiah 15:15
my life: Psalms 78:39, James 4:14
no more see: Heb. not return to see, that is, to enjoy, Job 10:21, Job 10:22
Reciprocal: Job 9:25 - swifter Job 10:20 - my days few Job 14:10 - where is he Job 33:22 - his soul Psalms 34:12 - that he Psalms 119:49 - Remember Ecclesiastes 6:6 - yet Ecclesiastes 8:13 - as a Isaiah 38:10 - General Isaiah 38:12 - is removed Lamentations 3:17 - I forgat Lamentations 3:19 - Remembering Lamentations 5:1 - Remember 1 Peter 3:10 - see
Cross-References
but I will make a covenant with you. Go into the boat with your wife, your sons, and their wives.
The Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with your whole family; I have found that you are the only one in all the world who does what is right.
On that same day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.
A male and a female of each kind of living being went into the boat with Noah,
Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but an unthinking person will walk right into it and regret it later.
In the days before the flood people ate and drank, men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat;
Everybody kept on eating and drinking, and men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat and the flood came and killed them all.
There are these two things, then, that cannot change and about which God cannot lie. So we who have found safety with him are greatly encouraged to hold firmly to the hope placed before us.
It was faith that made Noah hear God's warnings about things in the future that he could not see. He obeyed God and built a boat in which he and his family were saved. As a result, the world was condemned, and Noah received from God the righteousness that comes by faith.
These were the spirits of those who had not obeyed God when he waited patiently during the days that Noah was building his boat. The few people in the boat—eight in all—were saved by the water,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
O remember that my life [is] wind,.... Or, "breath" c; man's life is in his breath, and that breath is in his nostrils, and therefore not to be accounted of, or depended on; man appears by this to be a poor frail creature, whose life, with respect to himself, is very precarious and uncertain; it is but as a "vapour", an air bubble, full of wind, easily broken and dissipated, and soon vanishes away; it is like the "wind", noisy and blusterous, full of stir and tumult, and, like that, swiftly passes and sweeps away, and returns not again: this is an address to God; and so some d supply it, "O God", or "O Lord, remember", c. not that forgetfulness is in God, or that he needs to be reminded of anything but he may seem to forget the frailty of man when he lays his hand heavy on him; and may be said to be mindful of it when he mercifully takes it off: what Job here prays for, the Lord often does, as he did with respect to the Israelites, Psalms 78:39;
mine eye shall no more see good: meaning not spiritual and eternal good, here and hereafter; he knew he should, after this life, see his living Redeemer even with the eyes of his body, when raised again; that he should see him as he is, not through a glass, darkly, but face to face, in all his glory; and that for himself, and not another, and even see and enjoy things he had never seen before: but his sense is, that he should see or enjoy no more temporal good; either in this world, being without hope of any, or in the grave, whither he was going and would shortly be; and therefore entreats that some mercy might be shown him while he lived; to which sense the following words incline.
c רוח "hali us", Cocceius, Michaelis. d So Beza, Vatablus, Drusius, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
O remember - This is evidently an address to God. In the anguish of his soul Job turns his eye and his heart to his Maker, and urges reasons why he should close his life. The extent of his sufferings, and the certainty that he must die Job 7:9-10, are the reasons on which he dwells why his life should be closed, and he released. The language is respectful, but it is the expression of deep anguish and sorrow.
That my life is wind - Life is often compared with a vapor, a shadow, a breath. The language denotes that it is frail, and soon passed - as the breeze blows upon us, and soon passes by; compare Psalms 78:39 :
For he remembered that they were but flesh;
A wind that passeth away and cometh not again.
Mine eye shall no more - Margin, as in Hebrew not return. The idea is, that if he was cut off, he would not return again to behold the pleasant scenes of this life.
See good - Margin, To see, that is, to enjoy. The sense is that he would no more be permitted to look upon the things which now so much gratified the sight, and gave so much pleasure. There is some resemblance here to the feelings expressed by Hezekiah in his apprehension of death; see the notes at Isaiah 38:10-11.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 7:7. My life is wind — Mr. Good translates, "O remember that, if my life pass away, mine eye shall turn no more to scenes of goodness;" which he paraphrases thus: "O remember that, if my life pass away, never more shall I witness those scenes of Divine favour, never more adore thee for those proofs of unmerited mercy, which till now have been so perpetually bestowed on me." I think the common translation gives a very good sense.
