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Job 7:8

Job 7:8
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more,.... Or "the eye of sight" (e); the seeing eye, the most acute and quick sighted eye; so Mr. Broughton renders it, "the quick eye" (f): this is to…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more - I shall be cut off from all my friends - one of the things which most distresses people when they come to die. Thine eyes are upon me, and I am…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 7:7-16

Job, observing perhaps that his friends, though they would not interrupt him in his discourse, yet began to grow weary, and not to heed much what he said, here turns to God, and speaks to him. If men…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

are upon me, and I am not Perhaps rather, shall be upon me and I shall not be; God will look for him, enquiring, it may be, after the work of His hands, but he shall be gone; cf. Job 7:7.

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