SEV Biblia, Chapter 7:16
Abominé la vida ; no quiero vivir para siempre; déjame, pues, que mis días son vanidad.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Job 7:16
Verse 16. I loathe it; I would not live alway ] Life, in such circumstances, is hateful to me; and though I wish for long life, yet if length of days were offered to me with the sufferings which I now undergo, I would despise the offer and spurn the boon. Mr. Good is not satisfied with our common version, and has adopted the following, which in his notes he endeavours to illustrate and defend: Ver. 15. So that my soul coveteth suffocation, And death in comparison with my suffering. Ver. 16. No longer would I live! O, release me! How are my days vanity!
Ver. 17. What is man that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? ] Two different ideas have been drawn from these words: - 1. Man is not worth thy notice; why therefore dost thou contend with him? 2. How astonishing is thy kindness that thou shouldest fix thy heart-thy strongest affections, on such a poor, base, vile, impotent creature as man, ( wna enosh,) that thou shouldest so highly exalt him beyond all other creatures, and mark him with the most particular notice of thy providence and grace! The paraphrase of Calmet is as follows: "Does man, such as he at present is, merit thy attention! What is man that God should make it his business to examine, try, prove, and afflict him? Is it not doing him too much honour to think thus seriously about him? O Lord! I am not worthy that thou shouldest concern thyself about me!"
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-16 - Plain truths as to the shortness and vanity of man's life, and the certainty of death, do us good, when we think and speak of them with application to ourselves. Dying is done but once, and therefore it ha need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raise up, but the former generation vanishes away. Glorified saints shal return no more to the cares and sorrows of their houses; nor condemne sinners to the gaieties and pleasures of their houses. It concerns u to secure a better place when we die. From these reasons Job might have drawn a better conclusion than this, I will complain. When we have but a few breaths to draw, we should spend them in the holy, graciou breathings of faith and prayer; not in the noisome, noxious breathing of sin and corruption. We have much reason to pray, that He who keep Israel, and neither slumbers nor sleeps, may keep us when we slumbe and sleep. Job covets to rest in his grave. Doubtless, this was his infirmity; for though a good man would choose death rather than sin yet he should be content to live as long as God pleases, because lif is our opportunity of glorifying him, and preparing for heaven.
Original Hebrew
מאסתי 3988 לא 3808 לעלם 5769 אחיה 2421 חדל 2308 ממני 4480 כי 3588 הבל 1892 ימי׃ 3117
