Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Job 14:22
But. This verse describes what happens while he is alive. See below.
his soul. he himself. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
within. over.
mourn: i.e. mourn "over himself". Hebrew. 'alaiv, as in Hosea 10:5.
But. This verse describes what happens while he is alive. See below.
his soul. he himself. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
within. over.
mourn: i.e. mourn "over himself". Hebrew. 'alaiv, as in Hosea 10:5.
Verse Job 14:22. _BUT HIS FLESH UPON HIM SHALL HAVE PAIN_] The sum of the life of man is this, _pain of body_ and _distress of soul_; and he is seldom without the one or the other, and often oppressed...
BUT HIS FLESH UPON HIM SHALL HAVE PAIN - Dr. Good renders this, “his flesh shall drop away from him.” This is evidently a representation of the state of the man after he was dead. He would be taken aw...
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...
_But his flesh_ Or, _only_. The prep. rendered here "upon him" is the same as that rendered "within him," it means _with_him or in connexion with him, and the verse differs little from this, _Only his...
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...
_BUT HIS FLESH UPON HIM SHALL HAVE PAIN, AND HIS SOUL WITHIN HIM SHALL MOURN._ "Flesh" and "soul" describe the whole man. Scripture rests the hope of a future life, not on the inherent immortality of...
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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...
אַךְ ־בְּ֭שָׂרֹו עָלָ֣יו יִכְאָ֑ב וְ֝ נַפְשֹׁ֗ו...
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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...
But his (l) flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn. (l) Yet while he is in pain and misery....
_Over. Hebrew, "within him." (Haydock) --- During life man is full of cares, and presently he is consigned to the dreary tomb, ver. 19. (Calmet)_...
REFLECTIONS READER! while we contemplate, from the perusal of this chapter, the low and depressed state of our fallen nature, born to trouble, and but of short continuance; and while such a view tends...
(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...
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BUT HIS FLESH UPON HIM SHALL HAVE PAIN,.... Either he shall be chastened with strong pains on his sick and dying bed; which is the reason why he neither rejoices at the happiness of his family, nor is...
But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn. Ver. 22. _But his flesh upon him shall have pain_] That is, say some, but as long as he is living his body is afflicted wi...
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_But his flesh upon him shall have pain_ Or, _while his flesh is upon him; and his soul within him_ While the soul is clothed with, or united to, the body, he feels sharp pains in his body, and bitter...
But his flesh upon him shall have pain, feeling pain in the thought of his own misery, AND HIS SOUL WITHIN HIM SHALL MOURN. Pain is here, by personification, from our feelings while alive, attributed...
A PRAYER TO BE DELIVERED FROM HIS AFFLICTION...
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This is man's condition; he is miserable both when he dies, because he dies without hope of returning to life, as he had discoursed before; and (as he now adds) whilst he lives, _whilst his flesh is u...
Job 14:22 flesh H1320 pain H3510 (H8799) soul H5315 mourn H56 (H8799) his flesh - Job 19:20,...
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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...
_But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn._ PHYSICAL SENSATION AFTER DEATH Was it not the opinion of the ancient Jews that the soul retained somewhat of the sensati...
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...
Job 19:20; Job 19:22; Job 19:26; Job 33:19; Luke 16:23;...