What is my strength, that I should hope? - Job had until now borne his trials without fear that he would lose his constancy of hope…

Prolong my life. —This is the literal rendering; but some understand be patient, as in our phrase, long-sufferin…

What [is] my strength, that I should hope? &c.] For a perfect restoration of health, suggested by Eliphaz; since it was s…

Job had desired death as the welcome end to his miseries. Eliphaz had reproved him for this, but Job asks for it again with more vehemence than bef…

Eliphaz had clearly noted three things in Job’s lament: despair, because Job seemed to desire non-existence; impatience or excessive sorrow, becaus…