Job 14:1-22
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
OPEN THINE EYES] i.e. watch so vigilantly: cp. Job 14:16; Job 14:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 so man. With him death is final. Job here reaches the depth of despair. 13-22. Despairing of any retu... [ Continue Reading ]
WILL I WAIT] RV 'would I wait.' COME] RV 'should come.'... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'Thou shouldest call and I would answer thee: Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of thine hands.' 16, 17. These vv. probably are not, as AV and RV take them, the present contrast to the glowing picture of the future that he has been wishing might be true, but a continuation of that picture.... [ Continue Reading ]