Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 14:21
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.
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.
Verse Job 14:21. _HIS SONS COME TO HONOUR_] When dead, he is equally indifferent and unconscious whether his children have met with a splendid or oppressive lot in life; for as to this world, when man...
HIS SONS COME TO HONOUR, AND HE KNOWETH IT NOT - He is unacquainted with what is passing on the earth. Even should that occur which is most gratifying to a parent’s heart; should his children rise to...
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 ...
JOB 14:16 turns to the contrast of Job's present misery and hopeless end. Now God watches Job (Job 14:16). God writes down his sins, and seals up the indictments in a bag (Job 14:17). The mountains pe...
"The dead know not anything … also their love … is now perished," Ecclesiastes 9:5-6....
Under this severe treatment man must perish. For even the greatest and the firmest things in nature, and those most capable of resistance, are worn down by the influence of constant forces, and how mu...
This prayer for a second life is supported by a picture of the severity with which God deals with man in this life and the mournful consequences of it....
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...
10. But hope is destroyed in Sheol. (Job 14:18-22) TEXT 14:18-22 18 BAT THE MOUNTAIN FALLING COMETH TO NOUGHT; And the rock is removed out of its place; 19 The waters wear the stones; The overflo...
_HIS SONS COME TO HONOUR, AND HE KNOWETH IT NOT; AND THEY ARE BROUGHT LOW, BUT HE PERCEIVETH IT NOT OF THEM._ One striking trait is selected from the sad picture of the severance of the dead from all...
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’s thoughts about a tree gave him hope (verses 7-9). But then he thought about the earth itself. Even mountains do not last always. Job saw how rocks can fall from mountains. The rain takes the soi...
יִכְבְּד֣וּ בָ֭נָיו וְ לֹ֣א יֵדָ֑ע וְ֝ יִצְעֲ
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...
Or dishonour. He cannot naturally be informed. (Menochius) --- God may, however, reveal to souls departed, what may increase their accidental happiness or misery. (Haydock) --- Hence the Church prays...
(16) В¶ 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 mountain falling cometh to...
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...
HIS SONS COME TO HONOUR,.... Or "are multiplied" s, see Nahum 3:15; their families increase like a flock, become very numerous, which was reckoned a great blessing; or "become heavy" t; being loaded w...
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth [it] not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth [it] not of them. Ver. 21. _His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not_] While he lieth sick, he rega...
_His sons come to honour_ Hebrews יכבדו, _jicbedu:_ increase either in number or in greatness. The LXX. render it, πολλων δε γενομενων, _become many;_ and the word ויצערו, _vejitzgnaru, and they are b...
His sons come to honor, or, "should his children be in honor?" AND HE KNOWETH IT NOT; AND THEY ARE BROUGHT LOW, abased and disgraced; BUT HE PERCEIVETH IT NOT OF THEM. Man in the realm of death is utt...
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...
Death also separates us from all that we knew and loved in his life. "In death. parent cannot see his sons honored nor can he sympathize with their problems" _(Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 736)._ Man dies...
16-22 Job's faith and hope spake, and grace appeared to revive; but depravity again prevailed. He represents God as carrying matters to extremity against him. The Lord must prevail against all who co...
HE KNOWETH IT NOT; either, 1. Is ignorant of all such events; or, 2. Is not concerned nor affected with them. A dead or dying man minds not these things....
Job 14:21 sons H1121 honor H3513 (H8799) know H3045 (H8799) low H6819 (H8799) perceive H995 ...
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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 14:15 Job longs for a renewal in which God would secure his path and forgive his sin (vv. Job 14:15). But he concludes that just as the elements wash away rock and soil, so God will we...
_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 Samuel 4:20; Ecclesiastes 2:18; Ecclesiastes 2:19; Ecclesiastes 9:5;...