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John Gill's Exposition on Job 6:11
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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What [is] my strength, that I should hope? etc.] For a perfect restoration of health, suggested by Eliphaz; since it was so sadly weakened by the present affliction, which made death more desirable than life lengthened out in so much weakness, pain, and sorrow; or “that I should bear” f258, such a weight and heavy load that lay upon him, and crushed him, and to which his strength was not equal; or continue and endure f259; what [is] mine end, that I should prolong my life? what end can be answered by living, or desiring a long life? His children were gone, and none left to take care of and provide for; his substance was taken away from him, so that he had not to support himself, nor to be useful to others, to the poor; he had lost all power, authority, and influence, among men, and could be no more serviceable by his counsel and advice, and by the administration of justice and equity as a civil magistrate; and as to religious matters, he was reckoned an hypocrite and a wicked man by his friends, and had lost his character and interest as a good man; and so for him to live could answer no valuable end, and, therefore, he desires to die; for what is here, and in (<180612>Job 6:12,13) said, contain reasons of his above request.
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