What does Job 14:19 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man."
Verse Job 14:19. _THE WATERS WEAR THE STONES_] Even the common stones are affected in the same way. Were even _earthquakes_ and violent concussions of nature wanting, the action of _water_, either _ru...
THE WATERS WEAR THE STONES - By their constant attrition they wear away even the hard rocks, and they disappear, and return no more. The sense is, that constant changes are going on in nature, and man...
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 a...
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...
THE WATERS, &C. Figure of speech _Paroemia._ App-6. MAN. a mortal. Hebrew. _'en6sh._ App-14....
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...
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,...
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...
_THE WATERS WEAR THE STONES: THOU WASHEST AWAY THE THINGS WHICH GROW OUT OF THE DUST OF THE EARTH; AND THOU DESTROYEST THE HOPE OF MAN._ The Hebrew order is more forcible. 'Stones themselves are worn...
14:19 man. (b-22) _ Enosh_ . see Psalms 8:4 ....
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....
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...
אֲבָנִ֤ים ׀ שָׁ֥חֲקוּ מַ֗יִם תִּשְׁטֹֽף ־סְפִיחֶ֥יהָ עֲפַר ־אָ֑רֶץ וְ תִקְוַ֖ת אֱנֹ֣ושׁ הֶאֱבַֽדְתָּ׃...
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...
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...
_Man. Hebrew and Septuagint, "the hope of man." (Haydock) --- He must not expect to be more privileged than all other things, which time consumes. (Calmet) --- Job again deplores human misery. (Menoch...
(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...
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...
THE WATERS WEAR THE STONES,.... Either by continual running in them, or constant dropping upon them p; and the excavations or hollow places they: make are never filled up again, these impressions are...
The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow [out] of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man. Ver. 19. _The waters wear the stones_] _Gutta cavat lapidem, &...
_As the mountain falling cometh to naught_, &c. As when a great _mountain falls_, by an earthquake or inundation, it _moulders away like a fading leaf_, (as the Hebrew ward signifies,) _and_ as _the r...
A PRAYER TO BE DELIVERED FROM HIS AFFLICTION...
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 t...
WASHEST AWAY: _ Heb._ overflowest...
Finally death arrives even to the strongest of men, and their appearance, the flesh once flush with life, becomes pale at death....
16-22 Job's faith and hope spake, and grace appeared to revive; but depravity again prevailed. He represents God as carrying matters to extremity against him. The Lord must prevail against all who co...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Job 14:19 water H4325 away H7833 (H8804) stones H68 away H7857 (H8799) H5599 soil H6083 earth H776 destroy H6 (H8689) hope H8615 man H582 washest - Heb. overflowest, Genesis 6:17, Genesis 7:21-23 des...
Job 14:19 I. As "the waters wear the stones," they teach us a lesson of perseverance. They write upon the rocks a parable of patient diligence. There are some things which must be done at a stroke, o...
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...
_And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought._ THE LAW OF NATURE AND OF LIFE If the patriarch of Uz could listen to all the criticism of his commentators, his patience would be more severely tr...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 37:11; Genesis 6:17; Genesis 7:21; Job 19:10; Job 27:8; Luke 12:19; Luke 12:20; Psalms 30:6; Psalms 30:7...