--- title: "Job 7 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary" description: "Read Job 7 with trapps complete commentary 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/trapps-complete-commentary/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 [Job 7:1](/kjv/job/7/1) [Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an hireling? Ver. 1. **Is there not an appointed time to man upon the earth?** ] There is, certainly. Our bounds are prescribed us, and a pillar set by him who bears up the heavens, which we are not to transpass. *Stat sua cuique dies,* said the heathen poet (Virg. Aeneid 10), our last day stands, the rest run. It is said of the Turks, that they shun not the company of those that have the plague, but pointing upon their foreheads, say, it was written there at their birth when they should die. Now if there be an appointed time, &c., what mean the Lutherans to teach that God hath not determined the period of men’s days, but it is in man’s power to lengthen or shorten them, *Humanae vitae terminus non est decreto simplici et absoluto constitutus* (Homing). In this one verse we have two metaphors, both which do evince the contrary. The first is from soldiers, implied in the word צבא translated an appointed time, or a warfare, because there was a set time for soldiers to fight, and a set time also for them to serve. The second is from a hireling. **** **Are not his days also like the days of an hireling?** ] *Describit humanae vitro brevitatem,* saith Vatablus. Here he describeth the shortness of man’s life, and with it that his days are determined; for with a hireling we agree to work with us for a certain time, and usually for a day, or by the day; and hence we call them day labourers. It importeth then that the time of man’s life is short and set; for hirelings are appointed to an hour.[See Job 14:14](/kjv/-see-job/14/14); [Ecclesiastes 2:3](/kjv/ecclesiastes/2/3) ;[Joh 7:30](/kjv/-joh/7/30); [Isaiah 38:5](/kjv/isaiah/38/5) . Fifteen years just were added to Hezekiah’s life. Our hairs are numbered, much more our days. 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