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Job 7:7

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

O remember that my life is wind! (comp. Psalms 78:39). The wind is an image of all that is vain, shifting, unstable, ready to pass away (Job 6:1-30:36; Proverbs 11:29; Ecclesiastes 5:16; Isaiah 26:18; Isaiah 41:9; Jeremiah 5:13, etc.

). Mine eye shall no more see good. Another protest against the hopes flint Eliphaz has held out (see the comment on Job 7:6; and setup, Job 9:25). Job is still speaking of this life only, and not touching the question of another.

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