Job 7:7
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Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.

remember.

Job 10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust

Genesis 42:36 Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me.

Nehemiah 1:8 Remember the word that thou commandedst to Moses thy servant, saying: If you shall transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:

Psalm 74:18,22 Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name. . . .

Psalm 89:47,50 Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain? . . .

Jeremiah 15:15 O Lord, thou knowest, remember me, and visit me, and defend me from them that persecute me, do not defend me in thy patience: know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach.

my life.

Psalm 78:39 And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.

James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

no more see.

Job 10:21,22 Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death: . . .

Context
Job Continues: Life Seems Futile
6My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope. 7Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.8Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more.…
Cross References
James 4:14
Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

Job 7:16
I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.

Job 9:25
My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.

Psalm 4:6
The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my heart.

Psalm 78:39
And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.

Psalm 89:47
Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?

Lexicon
Remember
זְ֭כֹר (zə·ḵōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2142: To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male

that
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

my life
חַיָּ֑י (ḥay·yāy)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

is but a breath.
ר֣וּחַ (rū·aḥ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

My eyes
עֵ֝ינִ֗י (‘ê·nî)
Noun - common singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5869: An eye, a fountain

will never
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

again
תָשׁ֥וּב (ṯā·šūḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

see
לִרְא֥וֹת (lir·’ō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 7200: To see

happiness.
טֽוֹב׃ (ṭō·wḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good


Additional Translations
Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.O remember that my life is wind: my eye shall no more see good.

Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.

Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shalt not yet again see good.

Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good.

Oh remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

O remember that my life is wind: my eye will no more see good.

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

Remember Thou that my life is a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.
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