Job 7:8
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The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
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Job, in this chapter, goes on to express the bitter sense he had of his calamities and to justify himself in his desire of death. I. He complains to himself and his friends of his troubles, and the constant agitation he was in (Job 7:1-6). II. He turns to God, and expostulates with him (Job 7:7, to the end), in which, 1. He pleads the final period which death puts to our present state (Job 7:7-10). 2. He passionately complains of the miserable condition he was now in (Job 7:11-16). 3. He wonders that God will thus contend with him, and begs for the pardon of his sins and a speedy release out of his miseries (Job 7:17-21). It is hard to methodize the speeches of one who owned himself almost desperate, Job 6:26.
Open source ↗7:8 You see me now, but not for long: The Greek Old Testament omitted this verse to avoid the implication that God would be unable to see Job in Sheol (see study note on 7:9).
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The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’
You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?