Job 14:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? ”

• Job 14:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one? - Is one so weak, so frail, so short-lived, worthy the constant vigilance of the infinite God? In Zechariah 12:4 , the expression “to open the eye...

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• Job 14:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an (b) one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? (b) His meaning is, that seeing that man is so frail a creature, God should not handle him so extremely,...

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• Job 14:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 14:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  dost. ? Figure of speech Erotesis. me. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read "him".

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• Job 14:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? Job 14:3 Dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one - The whole of this chapter is directed to God alone; in...

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• Job 14:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And bringest me into judgment with thee?— And dost thou bring such a one into judgment with thee?

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• Job 14:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? Open ... eyes upon - not in graciousness; but, "Dost thou sharply fix thine eyes upon?" (Note, Job 7:...

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• Job 14:3 - 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 14:3 - 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 14:3 - 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 14:3 - 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 14:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) В¶ Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. (2) He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. (3) And dost thou open thin...

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• Job 14:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And dost thou open thine eyes on such an one ,.... So frail and feeble, so short lived and sorrowful, so soon and easily cut down and destroyed: and by opening of his eyes is not meant his provident...

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• Job 14:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? Ver. 3. And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one? ] sc. To observe his faults strictly, and to puni...

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• Job 14:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And dost thou open thine eyes on such a one? Dost thou, the infinite Jehovah, the self-existent, independent, and supreme Lord of all, the Almighty, open thine eyes on such an insignificant and hel...

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• Job 14:3 - 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 14:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Brevity and Frailty of Human Life. B. C. 1520.       1 Man that is born of a woman is of f...

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• Job 14:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one; either, 1. To take thought or care about him. Or rather, 2. To observe all his ways, that thou mayst find cause of punishment. He is not a fit match...

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• Job 14:3 - 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 14:3 - 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 14:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? On the corruption of human nature The disobedience of our first parents involved their posterity, and entailed a depravity of nature upon their de...

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• Job 14:3 - 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 14:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A Complaint over Life's Troubles

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• Job 14:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 13:25 ; Job 13:27 ; Job 7:17 ; Job 7:18 ; Job 9:19 ; Job 9:20 ; Job 9:32 ; Psalms 143:2 ; Psalms 144:3 ; Romans 3:19

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