Albert Barnes Commentary Job 7:8

"The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be." — Job 7:8 (ASV)

The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more—I shall be cut off from all my friends—one of the things which most distresses people when they come to die.

Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not—see (Job 7:21). Dr. Good renders this, “let thine eye be upon me, and I am nothing.” Herder, “thine eye will seek me, but I am no more.”

According to this, the sense is that he was soon to be removed from the place where he had lived, and that if he were sought there, he could not be found. He would seem to represent God as looking for him and not finding him .

The margin has, “I can live no longer.” It may be possible that this is the meaning: that God had fixed an intense gaze upon him, and he could not survive it.

If this is the sense, then it accords with the descriptions given of the majesty of God everywhere in the Scriptures—that nothing could endure his presence, that even the earth trembles, and the mountains melt away, at his touch. Thus, in (Psalms 104:32):

He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth;
He toucheth the hills, and they smoke.

Compare the representation of the power of the eye in (Job 16:9):

He teareth me in his wrath who hateth me;
He gnasheth upon me with his teeth
Mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

On the whole, I think it probable that this is the sense here. There is an energy in the original which is greatly enfeebled in the common translation. God had fixed his eyes upon Job, and he at once disappeared; compare (Revelation 20:11): “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them.”