Job 3:10-13

it shut not.

10:18,19; Ge 20:18; 29:31; 1Sa 1:5; Ec 6:3-5; Jer 20:17

hid.

6:2,3; 10:1; 23:2; Ec 11:10

died I.

Ps 58:8; Jer 15:10; Ho 9:14

when I came.

Ps 22:9,10; 71:6; 139:13-16; Isa 46:3

the knees.

Ge 30:3; 50:23; Isa 66:12; Eze 16:4,5

then had I been at rest.

Ec 6:3-5; 9:10

Job 14:1

1 Job entreats God for favour, by the shortness of life, and certainty of death.

7 He waits for his change.

16 By sin the creature is subject to corruption.

born.

15:14; 25:4; Ps 51:5; Mt 11:11

of few days. Heb. short of days.

7:1,6; 9:25; Ge 47:9; Ps 39:5

full.

5:7; Ec 2:17,23

Psalms 58:8

a snail.--{Shabbelool,} in Chaldee {tivlala,} the snail, is probably so called from the Arabic {balla,} to wet, moisten, because of the glutinous slime emitted from its body, by which it appears to waste itself away in its own motion; and in the same manner the wicked prove their own destruction.

pass.

37:35,36; Mt 24:35; Jas 1:10

untimely.

Job 3:16; Ec 6:3

Psalms 90:7-9

For we.

9,11; 39:11; 59:13; Nu 17:12,13; De 2:14-16; Heb 3:10,11,17-19

Heb 4:1,2

are we.

Ex 14:24; Ro 2:8,9

Thou.

10:11; 50:21; 139:1-4; Job 34:21; Jer 9:13-16; 16:17; 23:24

Eze 8:12; Re 20:12

our.

19:12; Pr 5:21; Ec 12:14; Lu 12:1,2; Ro 2:16; 1Co 4:5; Heb 4:12,13

1Jo 3:20

in the.

80:16

For.

78:33

passed. Heb. turned. we spend.The Vulgate has, {Anni nostri sicut aranea mediatabuntur,} "Our years pass away like those of the spider." Our plans and operations are like the spider's web. Life is as frail, and the thread of it as brittle, as one of those which constitute the well-wrought and curious, but fragile habitation of that insect. All the Versions have the word spider, but it is not found in any Hebrew MSS., or edition yet collated. The Hebrew might be rendered, "We consume our lives with a groan," {kemo hegeh.}

a tale. Heb. a meditation.

4; 39:5
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