Job 14:1-6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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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 cease to torment him (Job 14:6).

Job 14:4 is to be translated as mg. Oh that a clean thing could come out of an unclean! not one can. This is probably a gloss. It is the sigh of a pious reader, written on the margin, and mistakenly introduced into the text (Peake).

Job 14:6. For accomplish substitute mg. have pleasure in.

Related Commentaries of Job 14:1

Job 14:1-6

1 Man that is born of a woman is of fewa 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 thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

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