Chapter 14:
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Job 14
Man's life is but short, sorrowful, and sinful; on which
consideration he pleads for mercy, ver, 1-6. Other creatures
revive, but man does not, ver. 7-12. Various wishes and
complaints, ver. 13-22.
Verse 1. Man - A weak creature, and withal corrupt and sinful, and of
that sex by which sin and all other calamity was brought into the
world.
Verse 2. Flower - The flower is fading, and all its beauty soon withers
and is gone. The shadow is fleeting, and its very being will soon
be lost in the shadows of night. Of neither do we make any
account, in neither do we put any confidence.
Verse 4. Not one - No man. This is the prerogative of thy grace, which
therefore I humbly implore.
Verse 5. Determined - Limited to a certain period. With thee - In thy
power and disposal. Thou hast appointed a certain end of his days,
beyond which he cannot prolong his life.
Verse 6. Turn - Withdraw thine afflicting hand from him, that he may
have some present ease. 'Till - He come to the period of his life,
which thou hast allotted to him, as a man appoints a set time to an
hired servant.
Verse 8. Die - To outward appearance.
Verse 9. Scent - By means of water. Scent or smell, is figuratively
ascribed to a tree.
Verse 10. Man - Two words are here used for man. Geber, a mighty
man, tho' mighty, dies. Adam, a man of earth, returns to it. Before
death, he is dying daily, continually wasting away. In death, he
giveth up the ghost, the spirit returns to God that gave it. After
death, where is he? Not where he was: his place knows him no
more. But is he nowhere? Yes, he is gone to the world of spirits,
gone into eternity, gone, never to return to this world!
Verse 11. As - So it is with man. Or thus, as when the waters fail from
the sea, when the sea forsakes the place into which it used to flow,
the river which was fed by it, decayeth and drieth up without all
hopes of recovery.
Verse 12. Lieth - In his bed, the grave. 'Till - Until the time of the
general resurrection, when these visible heavens shall pass away.
Verse 13. The grave - The grave is not only a resting-place, but an
hiding-place to the children of God. He hides them in the grave,
as we hide our treasure in a place of secrecy and safety. Hide me
there, not only from the storms of this life, but for the glory of a
better. Until thy wrath be past - As long as our bodies lie in the
grave, there are some fruits of God's wrath against sin: until the
set time comes, for their being remembered, as Noah was
remembered in the ark, Gen. viii, 1. Our bodies shall not be
forgotten in the grave, there is a time set for their being inquired
after.
Verse 14. Shall he live? - He shall not in this world. Therefore I will
patiently wait 'till that change comes, which will put a period to
my calamities.
Verse 15. Answer thee - Thou shalt call my soul to thyself: and I will
chearfully answer, Here I am: knowing thou wilt have a desire to
the work of thy hands - A love for the soul which thou hast made,
and new-made by thy grace.
Verse 16. Numbereth - Thou makest a strict enquiry into all my actions.
Verse 17. Sealed - As writings or other choice things, that they may all
be brought forth upon occasion, and not one of them forgotten.
Thou keepest all my sins in thy memory. But herein Job speaks
rashly.
Verse 18. And - As when a great mountain falls, by an earthquake or
inundation, it moulders away like a fading leaf, (as the Hebrew
word signifies) and as the rock, when by the violence of winds or
earthquakes it is removed out of its place, and thrown down, is
never re-advanced: and as the waters by continual droppings,
wear away the stones, so that they can never be made whole
again: and as thou wastest away, by a great and violent
inundation, the things which grow out of the dust of the earth,
herbs, and fruits, and plants, which once washed away are
irrecoverably lost; in like manner, thou destroyest the hope of
man: when man dies, all hope of his living again in this world is
lost.
Verse 20. Prevailest - When once thou takest away this life, it is gone
forever. Sendest - To his long home.
Verse 21. Knoweth not - Either is ignorant of all such events: or, is not
concerned or affected with them. A dead or dying man minds not
these things.
Chapter 14:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Esther Psalms
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