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**Is there not. ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 .
**an appointed time** = a warfare. Compare [Job 14:14](../../../kjv/job/14/14) .
**man** = mortal man.
**are not. ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.*

**the shadow** = the shade: i.e. daytime.
**work.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Effect), App-6 , for the wages or reward gained by work: i.e. evening.

**dawning.** Hebrew. *nesheph.* A Homonym, having two meanings: (1) as here, daylight; (2) darkness. See notes on [1 Samuel 30:17](../../../kjv/1-samuel/30/17) . 2Ki 7:5 , [2 Kings 7:7](../../../kjv/2-kings/7/7) .

**wind.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 .

**the grave.** Hebrew. *Sheol.* See App-35 .

**know** = recognize.

**spirit.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 .

**Am I. ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 .
**whale** = a sea-monster.
**watch** = a bound. Compare [Jeremiah 6:22](../../../kjv/jeremiah/6/22) .
**over** = about, as in [Job 13:27](../../../kjv/job/13/27) . [Proverbs 8:29](../../../kjv/proverbs/8/29) .

**complaint** = complainings.

**rather than my life** = by mine [own] hands.
**life** = bones, or limbs: i.e. hands.

**loathe [it]** = loathe [life], [Job 7:16](../../../kjv/job/7/16) is parenthetical, being the thought of suicide, which intrudes itself upon him.

**What is man . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 .

**every morning.** Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Part), App-6 , put for all time: i.e. continuously.

**men.** Hebrew. *'adam.* App-14 .
**to myself.** One of the emendations of the *Sopherim* ( App-33 ), by which the primitive text "unto Thee" was altered to the current text (by the omission of the last letter) to "unto myself".

**transgression.** *Hebrew pasha'.*
**iniquity.** Hebrew. *'avah.*

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