Job 17:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I have saidh to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. ”

• Job 17:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  I have said - Margin, cried, or called. The sense is, “I say,” or “I thus address the grave.” To corruption - The word used here ( שׁחת shachath ) means properly a pit, or pit-fall, Psalms...

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• Job 17:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my (o) father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister. (o) I have no more hope in father, mother, sister, or any worldly thing: for the dust and worms...

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• Job 17:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 16:22 to Job 17:16 . Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must now die. Job 17:2 is obscure; the general sense...

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• Job 17:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. I have said to corruption - I came from a corrupted stock, and I must go to corruption again. The He...

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• Job 17:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. Thou art my father ... - Expressing most intimate connection ( Job 30:29 ; Proverbs 7:4 , "Say...

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• Job 17:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Fourth Speech (concluded) 1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises of restoration in the...

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• Job 17:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again i...

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• Job 17:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Bars of Sheol” Job 17:1-16 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1-9 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks t...

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• Job 17:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterabl...

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• Job 17:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (11) My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. (12) They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. (13) If I wait, the grave is mine house:...

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• Job 17:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  I have said to corruption, thou [art] my father ,.... Not to the corruptible seed, of which he was begotten; nor to the corruption or purulent matter of his boils and ulcers, and the worms his flesh...

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• Job 17:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister. Ver. 14. I have said to corruption, Thou art my father ] See how he speaks of corruption and the...

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• Job 17:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  I have said to corruption Hebrew, קראתי, karati, I have called to corruption; to the grave, where the body will be dissolved and become corrupt. Thou art my father I am near akin to thee, being...

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• Job 17:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...

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• Job 17:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job Reproves His Three Friends; Vanity of Worldly Expectations. B. C. 1520.       10 But as...

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• Job 17:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  To corruption, Heb. to the pit of corruption, the grave. Thou art my father; I am near akin to time, as being taken out of thee; and thou wilt receive and embrace me, and keep me in thy house,...

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• Job 17:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Bemoans his dying condition ( Job 17:1 ). “My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished,...

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• Job 17:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 17:1 . My breath is corrupt. Schultens reads, corruptus est spiritus meus: “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye we...

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• Job 17:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 17:1-18 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1-18 . It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment b...

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• Job 17:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job's Hopelessness in his Affliction

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• Job 17:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 15:42 ; 1 Corinthians 15:53 ; 1 Corinthians 15:54 ; Acts 13:34-37 ; Acts 2:27-31 ; Isaiah 14:11 ; Job 19:26 ; Job 21:32 ; Job 21:33 ; Job 24:20 ; Psalms 16:10 ; Psalms 49:9...

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• Job 17:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Corruption — Heb. to the pit of corruption, the grave. Father — I am near a — kin to thee, and thou wilt receive and keep me in thy house, as parents do their children.

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