Job 7:1 (WEB)
“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
Fathers and councils · 21
Jerome
“…in his servants, and chargeth his angels with folly, how much more them that dwell in houses of clay,” amongst whom are we, and made of the same clay too.“The life of man is a warfare upon earth.”Lucifer fell who was sending to all nations, and he who was nurtured in a paradise of delight as one of the twelve…” — editor's note: Job vii. 1.
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Read the whole comment“We read in the book of Job how, while the first messenger of evil was yet speaking, there came also another; and in the same book it is written: “is there not a temptation”—or as the Hebrew better gives it—“a warfare to man upon earth?”” — editor's note: Job vii. 1.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Is not the life of man upon earth a temptation?” — editor's note: Job vii. 1. The Old Ver. rendering צָבָא by tentatio, after the LXX. πειρατήριον. The Vulg. has militia, which =“warfare” in margin of A.V.
Read the whole comment“And no man ought to feel secure in this life, the whole of which is called a temptation, that he, who could be made better from worse, may not also from better be made worse.” — editor's note: Job vii. 1, Old Vers. See p. 153, note 1.
Read the whole comment““Let them delight in gladness:” no longer exulting with trembling, as in this world, so long as “human life is a trial upon earth.”” — editor's note: Job vii. 1, LXX.
Read the whole comment“…place for the Devil the Tempter—when, I say, we shall have judged prudently and rightly, as the salted victim did, that “human life upon earth is trial,” and that no one is at all secure, nor ought to be secure, until he be come to that country, whence no one that is a friend goeth forth, into which no one that…” — editor's note: Job vii. 1, LXX.
Read the whole comment“Thou hast it written in the book of Job, is not human life a temptation upon earth?” — editor's note: Job vii. 1.
Read the whole comment“God, who alone judgeth both truthfully and mercifully, will see how far he obeyeth His commandments: since “the life of man on earth is a temptation,” as holy Job saith.” — editor's note: Job vii. 1.
Read the whole comment“…man who could say this, but one to whom an everlasting country hath been promised in heaven: this I know, “that the life of man on earth is a temptation;” and that “there is a heavy yoke upon the sons of Adam.”” — editor's note: Job vii. 1.
Read the whole comment“Already thou livest righteously, already thou livest piously, thou livest chastely, holily, with virginal purity; as yet, however, thou livest here, and art thou not humbled at hearing, “What, is not human life upon earth a trial?”” — editor's note: Job. vii. 1. LXX.
Read the whole comment“…pastors and flocks; it is sufficiently shown that in this life, the whole of which is a trial, no one ought to boast himself as though free from all sins.” — editor's note: Job vii. 1
Read the whole comment“But now, so long as the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and human life upon earth is all temptation, in His sight shall no man living be justified, in comparison of the righteousness in which we shall be made equal with the angels, and of the glory which shall be revealed in us.” — editor's note: Job. vii. 1
Read the whole comment“Of this vast material for misery the earth is full, and therefore it is written, “Is not human life upon earth a trial?”” — editor's note: Job vii. 1.
Read the whole comment“Amidst these temptations, therefore, of all which it has been summarily said in the divine oracles, “Is not human life upon earth a temptation?” who but a proud man can presume that he so lives that he has no need to say to God, “Forgive us our debts?”” — editor's note: Job vii. 1.
Read the whole comment“However, the very life we mortals lead is itself all punishment, for it is all temptation, as the Scriptures declare, where it is written, “Is not the life of man upon earth a temptation?”” — editor's note: Job vii. 1.
Read the whole comment“…the Lord Jesus, in this prayer, prayed for all of His own who either then were or should thereafter be in this life, which is a state of trial upon earth, we must so understand the expression, “through their word,” as to believe that it here signified the word of faith itself which they preached in the world, and…” — editor's note: Job vii. 1: Tentatio super terram, ץרֶאָ־לעַ אבָעָ; English version, “An appointed time (marg., warfare) upon earth.” Rev. Ver. puts “warfare” into the text,…
Read the whole comment“The present life, therefore, whereof it is written, “Is not the life of man a term of trial upon earth?” in which we are daily crying to the Lord, “Deliver us from evil,” a man is compelled to endure, even when his sins are forgiven him, although it was the first sin that caused his falling into such misery.” — editor's note: Job vii. 1.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis III.3Book III
“…events which happen to human life, i.e., its temptations—according to the declaration of Job, “Is not the whole life of man upon the earth a temptation?”—in order that the manner of their occurrence, and the spirit in which we should regard them, might be clearly shown.” — editor's note: Cf. Job vii. 1. The Septuagint reads, πότερον οὐχὶ πειρατήριον, etc.; the Vulgate, “militia,” the Masoretic text has צָבָא. Cf. Davidson’s Commentary on Job,…
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For thus Job: ‘The whole world is a place of trial to men upon the earth.’” — editor's note: Job vii. 1. not LXX.
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Leo the Great
“For the measure of heavenly gifts does not rest upon the quality of our deeds, nor in this world, in which “all life is temptation,” is each one rewarded according to his deserving, for if the Lord were to take count of a man’s iniquities, no one could stand before His judgment.” — editor's note: Job. vii. 1 (LXX.).
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 48.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 2.
Cited together in Confessions X.32.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 48.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.27.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.14.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.27 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Confessions X.28.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.8.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 40.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.8 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 48.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.27.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.27.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.27.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.27.
Cited together in Confessions X.28.