Job 7:10 (BSB)
He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.
Commentary on Job 7:10
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 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 will not hear us, God will; if men cannot help us, he can; for his arm is not shortened, neither is his ear heavy.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 7:10: He shall return no more to his house,.... In a literal sense, built or hired by him, or however in which he dwelt; and if a good man, he will have no desire to return to that any more, having a better house, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens; or in a figurative sense, either his body, the earthly house of...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 7:10: (Psa 103:16). The Oriental keenly loves his dwelling. In Arabian elegies the desertion of abodes by their occupants is often a theme of sorrow. Grace overcomes this also (Luk 18:29; Act 4:34).
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Job 7:7-11: Job 7:7-11 7 Remember that my life is a breath, That my eye will never again look on prosperity. 8 The eye that looketh upon me seeth me no more; Thine eyes look for me, - I am no more! 9 The clouds are vanished and passed away, So he that goeth down to Sheôl cometh not up.