Job 14:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. ”

• Job 14:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  If a man die, shall he live again? - This is a sudden transition in the thought. He had unconsciously worked himself up almost to the belief that man might live again even on the earth. He had as...

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• Job 14:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till (g) my change come. (g) Meaning, to the day of the resurrection when he would be changed and renewed.

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• Job 14:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  If God, moved by longing for His creatures, would only restore Job to life! He who rejuvenates the tree, could reanimate the man. Death would then be a proof of the Divine love: it would be God's hid...

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• Job 14:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  shall... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. live again: i.e. in resurrection. Compare John 11:25 ; John 11:26 . appointed time . service, or warfare. change . improvement. Hebrew. hala...

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• Job 14:14 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 465 THE CHANGE THAT TAKES PLACE AT DEATH Job 14:14 . All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come . “IS there not an appointed time to man upon earth [Note: Jo...

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• Job 14:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  If a man die, shall he live again ? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. If a man die, shall he live again? - The Chaldee translates, If a wicked man die, can he ever...

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• Job 14:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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...

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• Job 14:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Shall he live? - The answer implied is, There is a hope that he shall, though not in the...

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• Job 14:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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.

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• Job 14:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I f a man die, shall he live again ? — Why ask the question if it were absolutely certain that he would not? “All the days of my warfare — i.e., as long as I live — I will hope, till my change or t...

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• Job 14:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Job 14:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Job 14:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Job 14:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 14:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  If a man die ,.... This is said not as if it was a matter of doubt, he had before asserted it; as sure as men have sinned, so sure shall they die; nothing is more certain than death, it is appointed...

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• Job 14:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Ver. 14. If a man die, shall he live again? ] This he speaketh in way of admiration at that...

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• Job 14:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If a man die, shall he live again? He shall not in this world, but he shall in another and better; and, therefore, all the days of my appointed time will I wait Hebrew, צבאי, tsebai , of my war...

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• Job 14:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 14:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Death Anticipated. B. C. 1520.       7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that...

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• Job 14:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Shall he live again? i.e. he shall not, namely, in this world, as was said before. The affirmative question is equivalent to an absolute denial, as Genesis 18:17 Psalms 46:7 Jeremiah 5:9 , a...

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• Job 14:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Job 14:14 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Job 14:14 I. Consider some of the grounds for believing that the soul of man is immortal. (1) The main current of human opinion sets strongly and steadily towards belief in immortality. (2) The ma...

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• Job 14:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 14:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

  If a man die, shall he live again? The one question of humanity, and its many answers I. The one question. 1. It has always been asked. In all periods of history it has been proposed; time h...

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• Job 14:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Job 14:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A Prayer to be Delivered from his Affliction

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• Job 14:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 15:42-44 ; 1 Corinthians 15:51 ; 1 Corinthians 15:52 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-16 ; Acts 26:8 ; Ezekiel 37:1-14 ; James 5:7 ; James 5:8 ; Job 13:15 ; Job 14:5 ; Job 19:25 ; Job...

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• Job 14:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Shall he live? — He shall not in this world. Therefore I will patiently wait 'till that change comes, which will put a period to my calamities.

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