Job 7:1, 12:10, 14:14, Psa 39:4, Dan 5:26, 30, 9:24, 11:36, Luk 12:20, Act 17:26 | TSK | STEP | Job excuses his desire of death. He complains of his own restlessness, and expostulates with God. Is there. an appointed time. or, a warfare. like the days.

Seventy weeks.That is, seventy weeks of years, or 490 years, which reckoned from the seventh year of Artaxerxes, coinciding with the 4,256th year of the Julian period, and in the month {Nisan,} in which Ezra was commissioned to restore the Jewish state and polity, (Ezr 7:9-26) will bring us to the month of Nisan of the 4,746th year of the same period, or A.D. 33, the very month and year in which our Lord suffered, and completed the work of our salvation.

Le 25:8; Nu 14:34; Eze 4:6

finish. or, restrain.

Mt 1:21; 1Jo 3:8

and to.

La 4:22; Col 2:14; Heb 9:26; 10:14

make an end of. or, seal up.

Eze 28:12

to make.

Le 8:15; 2Ch 29:24; Isa 53:10; Ro 5:10; 2Co 5:18-20; Col 1:20

Heb 2:17

to bring.

Isa 51:6,8; 53:11; 56:1; Jer 23:5,6; Ro 3:21,22; 1Co 1:30; 2Co 5:21

Php 3:9; Heb 9:12-14; 2Pe 1:1; Re 14:6

seal up.

Mt 11:13; Lu 24:25-27,44,45; Joh 19:28-30

prophecy. Heb. prophet.

Ac 3:22

and to anoint.

Ps 2:6; 45:7; Isa 61:1; Lu 4:18-21; Joh 1:41; 3:34; Heb 1:8,9; 9:11

the most.

Mr 1:24; Lu 1:35; Ac 3:14; Heb 7:26; Re 3:7

Daniel 11:36

do.

16; 8:4; Joh 5:30; 6:38

and he.The preceding verses (from ver. 31) relate to the Romans, who not only destroyed the city and temple of Jerusalem, and crucified the Messiah, but during almost 300 years sought by every means to extirpate Christianity. The conversion of Constantine, though it stopped the rage of persecution, gave but little help to true religion. The power first exercised by the emperors, in calling and influencing ecclesiastical councils, gradually passed into the hands of the clergy; and the bishop and church of Rome at last carried it to an enormous length, magnifying themselves above every god.

exalt.

7:8,20,25; Isa 14:13; 2Th 2:4; Re 13:5; 17:3

speak.

8:11,24,25

the God.

2:47; De 10:17; Jos 22:22; Ps 136:2

till.

7:20-25; 8:19; 12:7,11-13; Re 11:2,3; 12:14; 13:5

for.

4:35; 9:26; Job 23:13,14; Ps 33:10; Pr 19:21; Isa 46:10; Ac 4:28

Re 10:7; 17:17