Job 14:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. ”

• Job 14:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Thou prevailest forever against him - Thou dost always show that thou art stronger than he is. He never shows that he is able to contend with God. And he passeth - He cannot stand before thee...

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• Job 14:20 - 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 14:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. Thou prevailest for ever against him - It is impossible for him to withstand thee: every str...

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• Job 14:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. Prevailest - doest overpower by superior strength. Passeth - dieth. Changest...

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• Job 14:20 - 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 14:20 - 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 14:20 - 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 14:20 - 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 14:20 - 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 14:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thou prevailest for ever against him ,.... God is a more than a match for man, in anything, in everything; there is no contending with him, or standing against him, he is stronger than he, and alway...

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• Job 14:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. Ver. 20. Thou prevailest for ever against him ] This, and the rest of the words to the en...

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• Job 14:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thou prevailest for ever against him When once thou takest away this life, it is gone for ever; for he speaks not here of man's future and eternal life in another world. And he passeth That is, h...

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• Job 14:20 - 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 14:20 - 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 14:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  When once thou takest away this life, it is gone for ever; for he speaks not here of man's future and eternal life in another world. He passeth, i.e. he dieth, or is about to die. Man's death is of...

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• Job 14:20 - 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 14:20 - 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 14:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. Man’s mittimus I. The change. The human countenance an instructive book. All its changes are not of God’s working, or ordering. The sharp li...

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• Job 14:20 - 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 14:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A Prayer to be Delivered from his Affliction

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• Job 14:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ecclesiastes 8:8 ; Job 14:14 ; Job 2:12 ; Lamentations 4:8

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• Job 14:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Prevailest — When once thou takest away this life, it is gone forever. Sendest — To his long home.

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