Job 7:12
Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?
BSB
ASV
Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?
KJV
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
Am I a sea, or a whale - “Am I condemned as the Egyptians were who were drowned in the Red Sea? or am I as Pharaoh, who was drowned in it in his sins, that thou settest a keeper over me?” Targum. Am I as dangerous as the sea, that I should be encompassed about with barriers, lest I should hurt mankind? Am I like an ungovernable wild beast or dragon, that I must be put under locks and bars? I think our own version less exceptionable than any other hitherto given of this verse.
1834–1892
JOB was in great pain when he thus bitterly complained. These moans came from him when his skin was broken and had become loathsome and he sat upon a dunghill and scraped himself with a potsherd. We are amazed at his patience, but we are not amazed at his impatience! He had fits of complaining and failed in that very patience for which he was noted. Where God's saints are most glorious, there you will find their spots. The weaknesses of the saints lie near their strength. Elijah is the bravest of the brave and flees from Jezebel.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Job 7:17What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
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But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
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Lamentations 3:7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
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He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no…
You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.