Job 14:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place. ”

• Job 14:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And surely the mountain falling - Margin, “Fadeth.” The sense of this is, that the hope of man in regard to living again, must certainly fail - as a mountain falls and does not rise again; as the...

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• Job 14:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the (k) rock is removed out of his place. (k) He murmurs through the impatiency of the flesh against God, as though he used great severity again...

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• Job 14:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 14:16-22 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...

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• Job 14:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place. Job 14:18 The mountain falling cometh to naught - Every thing in nature is exposed to mutability and dec...

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• Job 14:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place. Cometh to nought - literally, fadeth; a poetical image from a leaf ( Isaiah 34:4 ). Here Job falls...

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• Job 14:18 - 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 14:18 - 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 14:18 - 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 14:18 - 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 14:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 14:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought ,.... Job here returns to his former subject of the irreparable state of man at death, which he illustrates by various other similes, as before; and...

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• Job 14:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place. Ver. 18. And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought ] q.d. If thou, Lord, proceed to deal thus r...

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• Job 14:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 14:18 - 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 14:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Complainings of Job. B. C. 1520.       16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not wat...

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• Job 14:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  As when a great mountain falls , either by an earthquake or inundation of waters, or from any other cause, it moulders away like a fading leaf , (as the Hebrew word signifies,) and never recovers i...

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• Job 14:18 - 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 14:18 - 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 14:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Job 14:18 - 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 14:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A Prayer to be Delivered from his Affliction

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• Job 14:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 40:12 ; Isaiah 41:15 ; Isaiah 41:16 ; Isaiah 54:10 ; Isaiah 64:1 ; Jeremiah 4:24 ; Job 18:4 ; Matthew 27:51 ; Psalms 102:25 ; Psalms 102:26 ; Revelation 20:11 ; Revelation 6:14 ;...

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• Job 14:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  And — As when a great mountain falls, by an earthquake or inundation, it moulders away like a fading leaf, (as the Hebrew word signifies) and as the rock, when by the violence of winds or earthquak...

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