Job 7:17
What is a man that thou shouldst magnify him? or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
In Context
16I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.
18Thou visitest him early in the morning, and thou provest him suddenly.
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:14As also it is said in the old proverb: From the wicked shall wickedness come forth: therefore my hand shall not be upon thee. After whom dost thou come out, O king of Israel?
Job 14:3And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?
Psalms 8:4For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.
Psalms 144:3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my life to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been dead of old:
Matthew Henry on Job 7:8-17
7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. 8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. 11 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. 12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou… Read the whole commentary →