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CHAPTER XIV
_The shortness, misery, and sinfulness of man's life_, 14.
_The unavoidable necessity of death; and the hope of a general_
_resurrection_, 5-15.
_Job deplores his own state, and the ge...
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MAN THAT IS BORN OF A WOMAN - See the notes at Job 13:28. The object
of Job in these verses, is to show the frailty and feebleness of man.
He, therefore, dwells on many circumstances adapted to this,...
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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 ...
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MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. "Man" is to Job 14:1 what Job 14:1 is to
the whole paragraph. The Hebrew accent (_Dehi_) emphasizes the word
"man", and divides the verse into two members; viz. (1) man a...
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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...
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Job 14:1. In the last verse of ch. 13. Job thought of himself as one
of the race of men, and now he speaks of the characteristics of this
race.
_born of a woman_ The offspring of one herself weak and...
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_JOB SETS FORTH THE SHORTNESS AND MISERY OF HUMAN LIFE. HE EXPRESSES
HIS FAITH IN A FUTURE STATE; AND DECLARES, THAT AFTER HIS CHANGE GOD
WILL CALL, AND HE WILL ANSWER HIM._
_Before Christ 1645._...
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7. So brief is man's allotted time he should be left to enjoy it. (Job
14:1-6)
TEXT 14:1-6
14 MAN, THAT IS BORN OF A WOMAN,
Is of few days, and full of trouble.
2 He cometh forth like a flower, an...
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_MAN THAT IS BORN OF A WOMAN IS OF FEW DAYS, AND FULL OF TROUBLE._
Woman - feeble, and in the East looked down upon (Genesis 2:21). Man,
being born of one so frail, must be frail and WOMAN - feeble,...
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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....
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Our lives on earth are short. Job said that we are like flowers. Some
flowers are very beautiful. But they may last only for a few hours.
Or, Job said that we are like shadows. A shadow has a clear sh...
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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...
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XIV.
(1) MAN THAT IS BORN OF A WOMAN IS OF FEW DAYS. — He now takes
occasion to dilate on the miserable estate of man generally, rising
from the particular instance in himself to the common lot of the...
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אָ֭דָם יְל֣וּד אִשָּׁ֑ה קְצַ֥ר
יָ֝מִ֗ים וּֽ ש
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Man (a) [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of
trouble.
(a) Taking the opportunity of his adversaries words he describes the
state of man's life from his birth to his death....
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_Man. He exposes to God the common miseries of mankind. (Calmet) ---
They cannot avoid many miseries in their short life, yet may be
brought to heaven. (Worthington)_...
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(1) В¶ 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 dost thou open thine...
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CONTENTS
Job continues his discourse through this chapter. He seems, in what is
here said, to be addressing himself more than his friends, and from
the view he takes of the miseries of life to implor...
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_DAYS FEW AND EVIL_
‘Of few days and full of trouble.’
Job 14:1
There are two things connected with human life that Job grieves over:
(1) the brevity of life, and (2) its sorrow.
I. THE BREVITY OF...
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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...
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MAN [THAT IS] BORN OF A WOMAN,.... Man, Adam; not the first man, so
called, for he was made and created out of the dust of the earth, and
not born of a woman; the woman was made out of him, and not he...
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Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.
Ver. 1. _Man that is born of a woman, &c._] Or, that is borne about
by a woman in her womb. Job's design is here to set forth the...
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_Man that is born of a woman_ A weak creature; and, withal, corrupt
and sinful, and of that sex by which sin and all other calamities were
brought into the world. _Is of few days_ Few at the most, in...
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Man that is born of a woman, feeble, frail mortal that he is, IS OF
FEW DAYS AND FULL OF TROUBLE, Psalms 90:10....
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A COMPLAINT OVER LIFE'S TROUBLES...
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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...
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OF FEW DAYS:
_ Heb._ short of days?...
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Again Job comes back to man's frail origin. It seems ironic that while
Job was longing for death that at the same time he complains about
life being so short. "In. sudden shift of mood, Job turned fro...
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1-6 Job enlarges upon the condition of man, addressing himself also
to God. Every man of Adam's fallen race is short-lived. All his show
of beauty, happiness, and splendour falls before the stroke of...
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JOB CHAPTER 14 Man's natural misery, sin, and short life, our plea
with God not to disturb us by his power, but suffer us to accomplish
our appointed time, JOB 14:1. The other creatures decay and revi...
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Job 14:1 Man H120 born H3205 (H8803) woman H802 few H7116 days H3117
full H7649 trouble H7267
born -...
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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...
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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...
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_Man that is born of a woman is of few days._
THE BREVITY AND BURDEN OF LIFE
The knowledge and the conduct of mankind are very frequently at
variance. How general is the conviction of the brevity of...
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_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.”...
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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...
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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...
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Ecclesiastes 2:17; Ecclesiastes 2:23; Genesis 47:9; Job 15:14; Job 25:
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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....