Job 14:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Turn from him, that he may rest,b till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. ”

• Job 14:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Turn from him - - שׁעה shâ‛âh . Look away from; or turn away the eyes; Isaiah 22:4 . Job had represented the Lord as looking intently upon him, and narrowly watching all his ways. He now a...

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• Job 14:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, (c) as an hireling, his day. (c) Until the time you have appointed him to die, which he desires as the hireling waits for the end of his la...

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• Job 14:6 - 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 14:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. Turn from him, that he may rest - Cease to try him by afflictions and distresses, that he may enjoy some of the com...

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• Job 14:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Turn from him— This is a metaphor taken from combatants, who keep their antagonist always in their eye. See on chap. Job 7:19 . Heath.

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• Job 14:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. Turn - namely, thine eyes from watching him so jealously ( Job 14:3 ). Hireling - ( Job 7:1 ). Accom...

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• Job 14:6 - 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 14:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Accomplish. — Rather, have pleasure in; rejoice at the day when his wages are paid him. Job had used the same image before ( Job 7:2 ). Job now proceeds to enlarge on the mortality of man, compar...

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• Job 14:6 - 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 14:6 - 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 14:6 - 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 14:6 - 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 14:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Turn from him, that he may rest ,.... From this short lived afflicted man, whose days are limited, and will soon be at an end, meaning himself; not that he desires he would withdraw his gracious pre...

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• Job 14:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. Ver. 6. Turn from him, that he may rest ] Heb. Look away from him, i.e. from me; look not so narrowly, and wi...

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• Job 14:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Seeing his days are determined Limited to a certain period. The number of his months is with thee Exactly known to thee, and in thy power and disposal. Thou hast appointed his bounds , &c. T...

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• Job 14:6 - 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 14:6 - 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 14:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Turn from him; withdraw thine afflicting hand from him. That he may rest; that he may have some present comfort and ease. Or, and let it cease , to wit, the affliction, which is sufficiently imp...

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• Job 14:6 - 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 14:6 - 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 14:6 - 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 14:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A Complaint over Life's Troubles

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• Job 14:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 10:20 ; Job 7:1 ; Job 7:16 ; Job 7:19 ; Job 7:2 ; Matthew 20:1-8 ; Psalms 39:13

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• Job 14:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Turn — Withdraw thine afflicting hand from him, that he may have some present ease. 'Till — He come to the period of his life, which thou hast allotted to him, as a man appoints a set time to an hi...

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