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1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
3 And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
18 And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.1
References and notes
1. King James Authorized Version
2.
Matthew Henry
Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible
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http://bible.crosswalk.com/Commentaries
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Overview of Job 14 |
Job had
turned from speaking to his friends, finding it to no
purpose to reason with them, and here he goes on to speak to
God and himself. He had reminded his friends of their
frailty and mortality (ch.13:12);
here he reminds himself of his own, and pleads it with God
for some mitigation of his miseries. We have here an
account,
I. Of man's life, that it is,
Short, (vs.1).
Sorrowful, (vs.1).
Sinful, (vs. 4).
Stinted, (vs. 5,14).
II. Of man's death,
that it
puts a final period to our present life, to which we shall
not again return (vs. 7-12),
that it
hides us from the calamities of life (vs.
13),
destroys
the hopes of life (vs. 18,19),
sends us
away from the business of life (vs.
20),
and keeps
us in the dark concerning our relations in this life, how
much soever we have formerly been in care about them
(vs. 21,22).
III. The use Job makes of all this.
He pleads
it with God, who, he thought, was too strict and severe with
him (vs. 16,17), begging that, in
consideration of his frailty, he would not contend with him
(vs. 3), but grant him some
respite, (vs. 6).
He
engages himself to prepare for death (vs.
14), and encourages himself to hope that it would be
comfortable to him, (vs. 15).2
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