Job 14:2
What meaning of the job 14:2 in the Bible?
What does Job 14:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not."
What does Job 14:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not."
Verse Job 14:2. _HE COMETH FORTH LIKE A FLOWER_] This is a frequent image both in the Old and New Testament writers; I need not quote the places here, as the readers will find them all in the _margin_...
HE COMETH FORTH LIKE A FLOWER, AND IS CUT DOWN - Nothing can be more obvious and more beautiful than this, and the image has been employed by writers in all ages, but nowhere with more beauty, or with...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_HE COMETH FORTH LIKE A FLOWER, AND IS CUT DOWN: HE FLEETH ALSO AS A SHADOW, AND CONTINUETH NOT._ (Psalms 90:6; note, Job 8:9.)...
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....
Our lives on earth are short. Job said that we are like flowers. Some flowers are very beautiful. But they may last only for a few hours. Or, Job said that we are like shadows. A shadow has a clear sh...
כְּ צִ֣יץ יָ֭צָא וַ יִּמָּ֑ל וַ יִּבְרַ֥ח כַּ֝ † צֵּ֗ל וְ לֹ֣א יַעֲמֹֽוד׃...
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...
_Shadow. Pulvis et umbra sumus. (Horace iv. Ode 7.) "Come then, ye men, whom nature condemns to spend your days in darkness, ye who resemble the leaves, are of little strength, formed of mud, shadow-l...
(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...
HE COMETH FORTH LIKE A FLOWER, AND IS CUT DOWN,.... As the flower comes from the earth, so does man; as it comes out of the stalk, so man out of his mother's womb; as the flower flourishes for a while...
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Ver. 2. _He cometh forth like a flower_] What he had asserted concerning the shortness of man's life is...
_He cometh forth like a flower_ Tender and delicate, fair and beautiful, his faculties and members opening and expanding themselves by degrees; _and is cut down_ By the scythe of some spreading malady...
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 t...
Human life is about as permanent as. spring flower (1 Peter 1:23-25), or. shadow....
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...
HE COMETH FORTH out of his mother's womb, JOB 1:21. LIKE A FLOWER; which quickly groweth up and maketh a fair show, but soon withereth, or is cut down. AS A SHADOW; which being made by the sun, follow...
Job 14:2 forth H3318 (H8804) flower H6731 away H5243 (H8799) flees H1272 (H8799) shadow H6738 continue H5975 (H8799) like - Psalms 90:5-9, Psalms 92:7, Psalms 92:12, Psalms 103:15-16
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...
_Man that is born of a woman is of few days._ THE BREVITY AND BURDEN OF LIFE The knowledge and the conduct of mankind are very frequently at variance. How general is the conviction of the brevity of...
_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...
1 Chronicles 29:15; 1 Peter 1:24; Ecclesiastes 8:13; Isaiah 40:6; James 1:10; James 1:11; James 4:14; Job 8:9; Job 9:25; Job 9:26;...
Flower — The flower is fading, and all its beauty soon withers and is gone. The shadow is fleeting, and its very being will soon be lost in the shadows of night. Of neither do we make any account, in...