Job 14:1

_MAN THAT IS BORN OF A WOMAN IS OF FEW DAYS, AND FULL OF TROUBLE._ Woman - feeble, and in the East looked down upon (Genesis 2:21). Man, being born of one so frail, must be frail and WOMAN - feeble, and in the East looked down upon (Genesis 2:21). Man, being born of one so frail, must be frail and prone to sin himself (Job 15:14; Job 25:4; Matthew 11:11). FEW DAYS (Genesis 47:9;...

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 sickness or death, as the flower before the scythe; or passes away like the shadow. How is it possible for a man's conduct to be sinless, when his heart is by nature unclean? Here is a clear proof that Job understood and believed the doctrine of original sin. He seems to have intended it as a plea, why the Lord should not deal with him according to his own works, but according to His mercy and grace. It is determined, in the counsel and decree of God, how long we shall live. Our times are in his hands, the powers of nature act under him; in him we live and move. And it is very useful to reflect seriously on the shortness and uncertainty of human life, and the fading nature of all earthly en...

CHAPTER XIV _The shortness, misery, and sinfulness of man's life_, 14. _The unavoidable necessity of death; and the hope of a general_ _resurrection_, 5-15. _Job deplores his own state, and the general wretchedness of_ _man_, 16-22. NOTES ON CHAP. XIV Verse Job 14:1. _MAN-BORN OF A WOMAN_] There is a delicacy in the original, not often observed: אדם ילוד אשה _Adam yelud ishah_, "Adam born of a woman, few of days, and full of tremor." _Adam_, who did _not_ spring from _woman_, but was immediately formed by _God_, had _many days_, for he lived _nine hundred_ and thirty

MAN THAT IS BORN OF A WOMAN - See the notes at Job 13:28. The object of Job in these verses, is to show the frailty and feebleness of man. He, therefore, dwells on many circumstances adapted to this, and this is one of the most stirring and beautiful. He alludes to the delicacy and feebleness, of the female sex, and says that the offspring of one so frail must himself be frail; the child of one so feeble must himself be feeble. Possibly also there may be an allusion here to the prevailing opinion in the Oriental world of the inferiority of the female sex. The following forcible lines by Lord Bacon, express a similar sentiment: The world’s a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span, In his con

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 passion of the two preceding chapters. It would seem that the patriarch, having vented his feelings, experiences a certain relief, an interval of calm, in which, his own woes pressing less heavily upon him, he is content to moralize on the general condition of humanity. JOB 14:1 MAN THAT IS BORN OF A WOMAN. In this fact Job sees the origin of man's inherent weakness. He is "born of a woman," who is "the weaker vessel" (1 Peter 3:7). He is conceived by her in uncle

MAN [THAT IS] BORN OF A WOMAN,.... Man, Adam; not the first man, so called, for he was made and created out of the dust of the earth, and not born of a woman; the woman was made out of him, and not he of her; "earthly man", as Mr. Broughton translates it, as every descendant of Adam is; as is the earth, such are they that are earthy, everyone of which is born of a woman; yet not as opposed unto and distinguished from the heavenly One, or the Lord from heaven, for he also as man was made and born of a woman: this, though a proper description of all mankind, there being none but what are born of a woman, see Matthew 11:11; yet Job chiefly designs himself; for having spoken of his wasting circumstances in which he was, in Job 13:28, goes on in this to treat of his frailty and mortality, and to improve it into an a

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 13:14) 5. The brevity and trouble of life (Job 14:1) 6. The ray of light through hope of immortality (Job 14:7) Job 12:1. He answers not only Zophar but the others as well. Before this Job had expressed his

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 torment him (Job 14:6). JOB 14:4 is to be translated as _mg._ Oh that a clean thing could come out of an unclean! not one can. This is probably a gloss. It is the sigh of a pious reader, written on the margin, and mistakenly introduced into the text (Peake). Job 14:6. For accomplish substitute _mg._ have pleasure in....

MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. "Man" is to Job 14:1 what Job 14:1 is to the whole paragraph. The Hebrew accent (_Dehi_) emphasizes the word "man", and divides the verse into two members; viz. (1) man and (2) his characteristics which are three: (1) his origin (born in sin), (2) his brevity of life, and (3) his fullness of sorrow....

Job 14:1. In the last verse of ch. 13. Job thought of himself as one of the race of men, and now he speaks of the characteristics of this race. _born of a woman_ The offspring of one herself weak and doomed to sorrow (Genesis 3:16) must also be weak and doomed to trouble, cf. ch. Job 15:14; Job 25:4....