“ As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: ”
As the waters fail from the sea - As the waters evaporate wholly, and leave the bottom wholly dry, so it is with man, who passes entirely away, and leaves nothing. But to what fact Job refers her...
Job 14:7-12 gives the reason why God should let man have what little pleasure he can ( Job 14:6 ): Death ends all. In Damascus it is still customary to cut down trees, the stumps of which being w...
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: The waters fail from the sea - I believe this refers to evaporation, and nothing else. As the waters are evaporated from the s...
For there is hope of a tree, &c.— Job begins this chapter with a reflection on the shortness and wretchedness of human life, a truth which he had so sadly learned from experience. In his progre...
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: Sea - i:e., a lake, or pool formed from the outspreading of as river. Job lived near the Euphrates; and "sea" is applied...
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.
As the waters fail from the sea seems commonly to have been misunderstood from its having been taken as a comparison; but there is no particle denoting comparison in the Hebrew. Moreover, the water...
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...
(7) В¶ For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. (8) Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock th...
[As] the waters fail from the sea ,.... the words may be rendered either without the as, and denote dissimilitude, and the sense be, that the waters go from the sea and return again, as with the tid...
Job 14:11 [As] the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: Ver. 11. As the waters fail from the sea ] He sets forth the same truth by an elegant similitude drawn fr...
As the waters fail from the sea This may mean, either, 1st, As the waters go , or flow out from the sea , and return not thither again, Ecclesiastes 1:7 : or, 2d, As waters , that is, some port...
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...
Death Anticipated. B. C. 1520. 7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that...
This may be understood either, 1. By way of opposition, the waters go or flow out of the sea , and return thither again, Ecclesiastes 1:7 ; and a lake or river sometimes decayeth, and drieth u...
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...
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...
A Complaint over Life's Troubles
Jeremiah 15:18 ; Job 6:15-18
As — So it is with man. Or thus, as when the waters fail from the sea, when the sea forsakes the place into which it used to flow, the river which was fed by it, decayeth and drieth up without all...