Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 14:4
Not one — No man. This is the prerogative of thy grace, which therefore I humbly implore.
Not one — No man. This is the prerogative of thy grace, which therefore I humbly implore.
Verse Job 14:4. _WHO CAN BRING A CLEAN_ THING] This verse is thus rendered by the _Chaldee_: "Who will produce a clean thing from man, who is polluted with sins, except God, who is one?" By _Coverdale...
WHO CAN BRING A CLEAN - thing “out of an unclean?” This is evidently a proverb or an adage; but its connection here is not very apparent. Probably, however, it is designed as a plea of mitigation for...
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 ...
How sorrowful the lot of man, whom God so straitly overlooks! Man's life is transitory and insubstantial (Job 14:1 f.), why does God act the inquisitor with one so frail? Job 14:3. Let God cease to t...
WHO... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._...
The question of astonishment in Job 14:3 supported by reference to the universal sinfulness of man. The verse reads, Oh that a clean might come out of an unclean! There is not one. The phrase _who...
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...
WHO CAN BRING A CLEAN THING OUT OF AN UNCLEAN?— _Who can be clean, that is born of the unclean? Not one._ Houbigant, who observes, that Job, without doubt, here alludes to our natural corruption. The...
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...
_WHO CAN BRING A CLEAN THING OUT OF AN UNCLEAN? NOT ONE._ A plea in mitigation. The doctrine of original sin was held from the first. 'Man is unclean from his birth: how then can God expect perfect c...
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 pleads the innate sinfulness of man. 5, 6. Let man spend his days in peace, seeing that his time is but short: cp. Job 7. 7-12. A tree has a chance of a second growth after it is cut down. Not s...
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...
God is our judge. He knows all our deeds. And we are not holy. We do many wrong things. Our good deeds cannot make us holy. We deserve God’s punishment. Job did not yet realise that God loves us. Or,...
WHO CAN BRING A CLEAN THING... — How can man be clean that is born of woman, who is unclean? This question is reiterated by Bildad (Job 25:4). We ought perhaps, however, rather to render “Oh, that the...
מִֽי ־יִתֵּ֣ן טָ֭הֹור מִ טָּמֵ֗א לֹ֣א אֶחָֽד
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...
Seed, is not expressed in Hebrew, " unclean. " It may refer to Adam. There is no contagion in the seed to infect the soul, as Tertullian supposed; it in only unclean in the cause, as every person who...
(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...
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...
WHO CAN BRING A CLEAN [THING] OUT OF AN CLEAN?.... Either produce a clean person from an unclean one: it is not to be expected that one, perfectly free from sin, should be generated by, or brought out...
Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not one. Ver. 4. _Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one_] _q. d._ I confess I am unclean; but what can I do withal? or how can I do o...
_Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?_ I confess I am an unclean creature, and therefore liable to be abhorred by thy holiness, and condemned by thy justice, if thou wilt deal rigorously wit...
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. It is a deep cry of misery over the universal sinfulness of the human race, which caused the unpitying severity of God to strike them all, and J...
A COMPLAINT OVER LIFE'S TROUBLES...
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...
WHO CAN BRING: _ Heb._ who will give?...
Job is not saying that man is totally depraved but he is expressing the frustration of standing before such. God and being acquitted. Not even God could judge someone who is unclean as being clean. Th...
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...
I do not say, _I am clean_, as Zophar pretendeth, JOB 11:4; but confess that I am a very unclean creature, and therefore liable to thy justice, if thou wilt deal rigorously with me; but remember that...
Job 14:4 bring H5414 (H8799) clean H2889 unclean H2931 one H259 Who can bring - Heb. Who will give, Job 15:14,...
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...
_Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?_ ON THE CORRUPTION OF HUMAN NATURE The disobedience of our first parents involved their posterity, and entailed a depravity of nature upon their descen...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 14:4 No mortal can work outside the LIMITS that God has set. ⇐ ⇔
_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...
Ephesians 2:3; Genesis 5:3; Job 15:14; Job 25:4; John 3:6;...