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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 7:7 - 7:7
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Address to God.
Wind - a picture of evanescence (Psa 78:39).
shall no more see - rather, “shall no more return to see good.” This change from the different wish in Job 3:17, etc., is most true to nature. He is now in a softer mood; a beam from former days of prosperity falling upon memory and the thought of the unseen world, where one is seen no more (Job 7:8), drew from him an expression of regret at leaving this world of light (Ecc 11:7); so Hezekiah (Isa 38:11). Grace rises above nature (2Co 5:8).