Job 14:1
_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._... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BRINGEST ME INTO JUDGMENT WITH THEE?— _And dost thou bring such a one into judgment with thee?_... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Vulgate renders it, _Who can bring a clean thing from unclean seed?_... [ Continue Reading ]
TURN FROM HIM— This is a metaphor taken from combatants, who keep their antagonist always in their eye. See on chap. Job 7:19. Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
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, therefore, as was natural, he seems to be casting about for arguments of support and consolation under... [ Continue Reading ]
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 it is likewise used in a religious sense, if I may so term it. The angels which attend the throne o... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR NOW, &C.— _But now thou,_ &c. _Do not watch mine offences so narrowly:_ Job 14:17. _Do not seal up my transgression in a bag, or note mine iniquities in thy register._ The word rendered _sewest up_ in our version, signifies the taking down any remark or memorandum in a table-book. Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU WASHEST AWAY THE THINGS, &C.— _And the inundations of waters sweep away the soil of the earth. So the hope of man hast thou utterly destroyed._ Heath, who renders the beginning of the 18th verse, _for as the mountain falling wasteth away, and the rock may be removed from its place._ Job, in the... [ Continue Reading ]