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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
Am I a sea, or a whale,.... Like the restless sea, to which very wicked, profligate, and abandoned sinners are compared,…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Am I a sea? - That is, “am I like a raging and tumultuous sea, that it is necessary to restrain and confine me? The…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Job 7:7-16
Job, observing perhaps that his friends, though they would not interrupt him in his discourse, yet began to grow weary,…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
First, he asks with bitter irony if he is the sea or the monster of the sea, that he must be watched and subdued with…
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