Job 7:10

10 nec revertetur ultra in domum suam neque cognoscet eum amplius locus eius

Job 7:10 Meaning and Commentary

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 his tabernacle, an house of clay, which has its foundation in the dust; to this he shall not return until the resurrection, when it will be rebuilt, and fitted up for the better reception and accommodation of him; or else his family, to whom he shall not come back again, to have any concern with them in domestic affairs, or in part of the business of life, as David said of his child when dead, "I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me", ( 2 Samuel 12:23 ) ;

neither shall his place know him any more;
the place of his office, or rather of his habitation; his dwelling house, his farms and his fields, his estates and possessions, shall no more know, own, and acknowledge him as their master, proprietor, and possessor, these, coming at his death into other hands, who now are regarded as such; or the inhabitants of the place, country, city, town, village, and house in which he lived, shall know him no more; no more being seen among them, he will soon be forgotten; out of sight, out of mind F2.


FOOTNOTES:

F2 "Linquenda tellus et domus" Horat. Carmin. l. 2. Ode 14.

Job 7:10 In-Context

8 nec aspiciet me visus hominis oculi tui in me et non subsistam
9 sicut consumitur nubes et pertransit sic qui descenderit ad inferos non ascendet
10 nec revertetur ultra in domum suam neque cognoscet eum amplius locus eius
11 quapropter et ego non parcam ori meo loquar in tribulatione spiritus mei confabulabor cum amaritudine animae meae
12 numquid mare sum ego aut cetus quia circumdedisti me carcere
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