--- title: "Job 7 - Study King James Bible with barnes notes on the whole bible" description: "Read Job 7 with barnes notes on the whole bible commentary. 1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? 2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/barnes-notes-on-the-whole-bible/job/7" --- [ Read](/kjv/job/7)[ Commentary](/study/job/7)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/job/7) Audio 1 *Is there* not an appointed time to man upon earth? *are not* his days also like the days of an hireling?* 2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for *the reward of* his work:* 3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.* 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. 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 settest a watch over me? 13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; 14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, *and* death rather than my life.* 16 I loathe *it;* I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days *are* vanity. 17 What *is* man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? 18 And *that* thou shouldest visit him every morning, *and* try him every moment? 19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? 20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I *shall* not *be*. [Job 6](/study/job/6) [Job 8](/study/job/8) ## Commentary To verse 1 **Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? -**Margin, or, warfare. The word used here צבא *tsâbâ'* means properly a host, an army, see the notes, [Isaiah 1:9](/kjv/isaiah/1/9); then it means warfare, or the hard service of a soldier; notes, [Isaiah 40:2](/kjv/isaiah/40/2). Here it means that man on the earth was enlisted, so to speak, for a certain time. He had a certain and definite hard service to perform, and which he must continue to discharge until he was relieved by death. It was a service of hazard, like the life of a soldier, or of toil, like that of one who had been hired for a certain time, and who anxiously looked for the period of his release. The object of Job in introducing this remark evidently is, to vindicate himself for the wish to die which he had expressed. He maintains that it is as natural and proper for man in his circumstances to wish to be released by death, as for a soldier to desire that his term of service might be accomplished, or a weary servant to long for the shades of the evening. The Septuagint renders it, “Is not the life of man upon the earth peirateerion “ - explained by Schleusner and rendered by Good, as meaning a band of pirates. The Vulgate renders it, *militia* - miltary service. The sense is, that the life of man was like the hard service of a soldier; and this is one of the points of justification to which Job referred in [Job 6:29-30](/kjv/job/6/29-30). He maintains that it is not improper to desire that such a service should close. **The days of an hireling -**A man who has been hired to perform some service with a promise of a reward, and who is not unnaturally impatient to receive it. Job maintained that such was the life of man. 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