Dead. Shall one in a condition nearly as bad, like myself, be restored to health? Yes, I entertain this hope. (Calmet) --- Thinkest thou, is not in Hebrew or Septuagint. The latter speaks (Haydock) clearly of the resurrection. (Calmet) --- "For if a man die, shall he revive, having completed the days of his life? I wait (for thee) till I be again." (Grabe) (Haydock) --- Warfare. Chap. vii. 1.
Verse Job 14:14. _IF A MAN DIE, SHALL HE LIVE_ AGAIN?] The _Chaldee_ translates, If a wicked man die, can he ever live again? or, _he_ _can never live again_. The _Syriac_ and _Arabic_ thus: "If a ma...
IF A MAN DIE, SHALL HE LIVE AGAIN? - This is a sudden transition in the thought. He had unconsciously worked himself up almost to the belief that man might live again even on the earth. He had asked t...
CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR _ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_ 2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7) 3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1) 4. He appeals to God ...
If God, moved by longing for His creatures, would only restore Job to life! He who rejuvenates the tree, could reanimate the man. Death would then be a proof of the Divine love: it would be God's hidi...
SHALL... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. LIVE AGAIN: i.e. in resurrection. Compare John 11:25; John 11:26. APPOINTED TIME. service, or warfare. CHANGE. improvement. Hebrew. _halaph =_ a. chang...
Job 13:22 to Job 14:22. Job pleads his cause before God Having ordered his cause and challenged his friends to observe how he will plead, Job now enters, with the boldness and proud bearing of one as...
Having pursued the destiny of man through all its steps down to its lowest, its complete extinction in death, Job, with a revulsion created by the instinctive demands of the human spirit, rises to the...
DISCOURSE: 465 THE CHANGE THAT TAKES PLACE AT DEATH Job 14:14. _All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come_. “IS there not an appointed time to man upon earth [Note: Job 7:1.]...
FOR THERE IS HOPE OF A TREE, &C.— Job begins this chapter with a reflection on the shortness and wretchedness of human life, a truth which he had so sadly learned from experience. In his progress, the...
MY APPOINTED TIME— _My appointed service. My station,_ or _my warfare,_ as some render it: צבאי, _zebaai._ The word is commonly used in a military sense, either for an army, or a state of warfare; but...
9. Job longs for an afterlife. (Job 14:13-17) TEXT 14:13-17 13 OH THAT THOU WOULDEST HIDE ME IN SHEOL, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a s...
_IF A MAN DIE, SHALL HE LIVE AGAIN? ALL THE DAYS OF MY APPOINTED TIME WILL I WAIT, TILL MY CHANGE COME._ Shall he live? - The answer implied is, There is a hope that he shall, though not in the prese...
WILL I WAIT] RV 'would I wait.' COME] RV 'should come.'...
JOB'S THIRD SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-6. Job pleads for God's forbearance on the grounds of man's shortness of life and sinful nature. 1, 2. The well-known Sentence in the Burial Service....
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 14 JOB CONTINUES HIS PRAYER...
Job thought that God caused his troubles. So, Job thought that God was angry. In fact, God was not angry with Job. God was pleased with Job. And God did not cause Job’s troubles. The devil caused Job’...
IF A MAN DIE, SHALL HE LIVE AGAIN? — Why ask the question if it were absolutely certain that he would not? “All the days of my warfare — _i.e.,_ as long as I live — I will hope, till my change or tran...
אִם ־יָמ֥וּת גֶּ֗בֶר הֲ יִ֫חְיֶ֥ה כָּל ־יְמֵ֣
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
SHALL MAN LIVE AGAIN? Job 14:1 Continuing his appeal, Job looks from his own case to _the condition of mankind generally,_ Job 14:1. All men are frail and full of trouble, Job 14:12; why should God b...
Taking a more general outlook, Job declared that man's life is ever transitory, and full of trouble. This should be a reason why God should pity him, and let him work out the brief period of its durat...
If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till (g) my change come. (g) Meaning, to the day of the resurrection when he would be changed and renewed....
(7) В¶ 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 the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
IF A MAN DIE,.... This is said not as if it was a matter of doubt, he had before asserted it; as sure as men have sinned, so sure shall they die; nothing is more certain than death, it is appointed by...
If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Ver. 14. _If a man die, shall he live again?_] This he speaketh in way of admiration at that g...
_If a man die, shall he live again?_ He shall not in this world, but he shall in another and better; and, therefore, _all the days of my appointed time will I wait_ Hebrew, צבאי, _tsebai_, of my _warf...
If a man die, shall he live again? It is the voice of suspicion, of skepticism, which desires to banish all hope for the future, the doubt which endeavors to enter the heart of believers from time to...
A PRAYER TO BE DELIVERED FROM HIS AFFLICTION...
MAN'S DECAY AND DEATH (vv.1-12) What Job had said in chapter 3:28 he expands upon in these verses, giving a vivid description of the evanescent character of man's life on earth. This is generally tr...
"IF. MAN DIES, WILL HE LIVE AGAIN?" Notice how the thought of the afterlife and especially the resurrection, seemed to offer Job even while he was in despair. Without this thought of. life beyond this...
7-15 Though a tree is cut down, yet, in a moist situation, shoots come forth, and grow up as a newly planted tree. But when man is cut off by death, he is for ever removed from his place in this worl...
SHALL HE LIVE AGAIN? i.e. he shall not, namely, in this world, as was said before. The affirmative question is equivalent to an absolute denial, as GENESIS 18:17 PSALMS 46:7 JEREMIAH 5:9, and every wh...
Job 14:14 man H1397 dies H4191 (H8799) live H2421 (H8799) days H3117 service H6635 wait H3176 ...
Job 14:14 It was one of the accurate adjustments of God's dealings that the man whose body was the most humiliated by suffering of all mankind was also the man who of all the Old Testament saints rec...
Job 14:14 I. Consider some of the grounds for believing that the soul of man is immortal. (1) The main current of human opinion sets strongly and steadily towards belief in immortality. (2) The master...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to his friends continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job. CONCLUSION: God's providence has the ordering of the period of our lives; our times are in His hand. The consideration of our i...
Job 14:4. _Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?_ Then seeing we are all stained with original and actual sin, why should Zophar, without the least proof, almost say that Job's afflictions we...
_If a man die, shall he live again?_ THE ONE QUESTION OF HUMANITY, AND ITS MANY ANSWERS I. The one question. 1. It has always been asked. In all periods of history it has been proposed; time has no...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 14:7 Job laments the limits of mortality by contrasting the consequences of cutting down a TREE (vv. Job 14:7) and the death of a man
_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S PLEADING WITH GOD_ I. Pleads the common infirmity of human nature (Job 14:1). Man, from the very nature of his birth, frail and mortal, suffering and sinful. “Born of a woman.”...
EXPOSITION JOB 14:1 This chapter, in which Job concludes the fourth of his addresses, is characterized by a tone of mild and gentle expostulation, which contrasts with the comparative vehemence and p...
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, he's full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow [or the shadow on the sundial], and continues not (Job 14:1-2...
1 Corinthians 15:42; 1 Corinthians 15:51; 1 Corinthians 15:52; 1 Thessalonians 4:14;...
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....