“ Man that is born of a woman is of fewa days, and full of trouble. ”
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...
Man (a) [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble. (a) Taking the opportunity of his adversaries words he describes the state of man's life from his birth to his death.
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 cea...
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 that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 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 wo...
Job sets forth the shortness and misery of human life. He expresses his faith in a future state; and declares, that after his change God will call, and he will answer him. Before Christ 1645....
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...
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.
XIV. (1) Man that is born of a woman is of few days. — He now takes occasion to dilate on the miserable estate of man generally, rising from the particular instance in himself to the common lot...
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he...
Shall Man Live Again? Job 14:1-22 Continuing his appeal, Job looks from his own case to the condition of mankind generally, Job 14:1-6 . All men are frail and full of trouble, Job 14:12 ; w...
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 dura...
CONTENTS Job continues his discourse through this chapter. He seems, in what is here said, to be addressing himself more than his friends, and from the view he takes of the miseries of life to implo...
DAYS FEW AND EVIL ‘Of few days and full of trouble.’ Job 14:1 There are two things connected with human life that Job grieves over: (1) the brevity of life, and (2) its sorrow. I. The bre...
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...
Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble. Ver. 1. Man that is born of a woman, &c. ] Or, that is borne about by a woman in her womb. Job's design is here to set fort...
Man that is born of a woman A weak creature; and, withal, corrupt and sinful, and of that sex by which sin and all other calamities were brought into the world. Is of few days Few at the most, in...
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 generall...
Brevity and Frailty of Human Life. B. C. 1520. 1 Man that is born of a woman is of f...
JOB CHAPTER 14 Man's natural misery, sin, and short life, our plea with God not to disturb us by his power, but suffer us to accomplish our appointed time, Job 14:1-6 . The other creatures decay...
CONTINUATION OF JOB’S PLEADING WITH GOD I. Pleads the common infirmity of human nature ( Job 14:1-4 ). Man, from the very nature of his birth, frail and mortal, suffering and sinful. “Born of a...
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...
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...
EXPOSITION Job 14:1-18 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 ve...
Man that is born of a woman, feeble, frail mortal that he is, is of few days and full of trouble, Psalms 90:10 .
Ecclesiastes 2:17 ; Ecclesiastes 2:23 ; Genesis 47:9 ; Job 15:14 ; Job 25:4 ; Job 5:7 ; Job 7:1 ; Job 7:6 ; Job 9:25 ; Matthew 11:11 ; Psalms 39:5 ; Psalms 51:5
Man — A weak creature, and withal corrupt and sinful, and of that sex by which sin and all other calamity was brought into the world.