約伯記 7:15

15 甚 至 我 寧 肯 噎 死 ， 寧 肯 死 亡 ， 勝 似 留 我 這 一 身 的 骨 頭 。

約伯記 7:15 Meaning and Commentary

Job 7:15

So that my soul chooseth strangling
Not to strangle himself, as Ahithophel did, or to be strangled by others, this being a kind of death inflicted on capital offenders; but rather, as Mr. Broughton renders it, "to be choked to death" by any distemper and disease, as some are of a suffocating nature, as a catarrh, quinsy and kill in that way; and indeed death in whatsoever way is the stopping of a man's breath; and it was death that Job chose, let it be in what way it would, whether natural or violent; so weary was he of life through his sore and heavy afflictions:

[and] death rather than my life;
or, "than my bones" ^F9; which are the more solid parts of the body, and the support of it, and are put for the whole and the life thereof; or than these bones of his, which were full of strong pain, and which had nothing but skin upon them, and that was broken and covered with worms, rottenness, and dust; the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "and my bones death"; that is, desired and chose death, being so full of pain, see ( Psalms 35:10 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (ytwmuem) "prae ossibus meis", Montanus, Tigurine version, Bolducius, Cocceius, Schmidt, Schultens; so Mercerus, Piscator, Michaelis.

約伯記 7:15 In-Context

13 若 說 ： 我 的 床 必 安 慰 我 ， 我 的 榻 必 解 釋 我 的 苦 情 ，

14 你 就 用 夢 驚 駭 我 ， 用 異 象 恐 嚇 我 ，

15 甚 至 我 寧 肯 噎 死 ， 寧 肯 死 亡 ， 勝 似 留 我 這 一 身 的 骨 頭 。

16 我 厭 棄 性 命 ， 不 願 永 活 。 你 任 憑 我 罷 ， 因 我 的 日 子 都 是 虛 空 。

17 人 算 甚 麼 ， 你 竟 看 他 為 大 ， 將 他 放 在 心 上 ？