Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Job 14:3
Verse Job 14:3. Dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one] The whole of this chapter is directed to God alone; in no part of it does he take any notice of his friends.
Verse Job 14:3. Dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one] The whole of this chapter is directed to God alone; in no part of it does he take any notice of his friends.
AND DOST THOU OPEN THINE EYES UPON SUCH AN ONE? - Is one so weak, so frail, so short-lived, worthy the constant vigilance of the infinite God? In Zechariah 12:4, the expression “to open the eyes” upon...
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...
DOST. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ ME. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read "him"....
A question of astonishment at the severity of God's dealing with a creature of such weakness as man. "To open the eyes" is to look narrowly to, to watch in order to punish....
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...
AND BRINGEST ME INTO JUDGMENT WITH THEE?— _And dost thou bring such a one into judgment with thee?_...
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...
_AND DOST THOU OPEN THINE EYES UPON SUCH AN ONE, AND BRINGEST ME INTO JUDGMENT WITH THEE?_ Open ... eyes upon - not in graciousness; but, "Dost thou sharply fix thine eyes upon?" (Note, Job 7:19; als...
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....
OPEN THINE EYES] i.e. watch so vigilantly: cp. Job 14:16; Job 14:17....
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,...
אַף ־עַל ־זֶ֭ה פָּקַ֣חְתָּ עֵינֶ֑ךָ וְ אֹ֘תִ֤
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...
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an (b) one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? (b) His meaning is, that seeing that man is so frail a creature, God should not handle him so extremely, i...
_With thee. He seems beneath God's attention: (Arist.[Aristotle?] Met. viii. 9.; Cicero, Nat. ii.) but as the knowledge and other attributes of the Deity are infinite, he must necessarily attend to th...
(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...
AND DOST THOU OPEN THINE EYES ON SUCH AN ONE,.... So frail and feeble, so short lived and sorrowful, so soon and easily cut down and destroyed: and by opening of his eyes is not meant his providential...
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? Ver. 3. _And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one?_] _sc._ To observe his faults strictly, and to punish...
_And dost thou open thine eyes on such a one?_ Dost thou, the infinite Jehovah, the self-existent, independent, and supreme Lord of all, the Almighty, open thine eyes on such an insignificant and help...
And dost Thou open Thine eyes upon such an one, watching him only for the sake of punishing him, feeble and frail as he is, AND BRINGEST ME INTO JUDGMENT WITH THEE? Job, who considered himself a parti...
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...
Man is also constantly under God's supervision and is ultimately brought before God to answer in judgment....
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...
DOST THOU OPEN THINE EYES UPON SUCH AN ONE; either, 1. To take thought or care about him. Or rather, 2. To observe all his ways, that thou mayst find cause of punishment. He is not a fit match for th...
Job 14:3 open H6491 (H8804) eyes H5869 one H2088 bring H935 (H8686) judgment H4941 And dost -...
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...
_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 13:25; Job 13:27; Job 7:17; Job 7:18; Job 9:19;...