Job 10:20; Job 7:1; Job 7:16; Job 7:19; Job 7:2; Matthew 20:1-8; Psalms 39:13
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...
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 d...
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 inquis...
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...
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.
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'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 wel...
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 p...
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 mu...
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...
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,...
(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 shado...
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...
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...
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 dis...
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...
Brevity and Frailty of Human Life. B. C. 1520....
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 ,...
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,...
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...
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 expo...
A Complaint over Life's Troubles
turn from him that he may rest, have surcease from sorrow and misery, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day, that he at least, while th...
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 allo...
6 Turn from him, that he may rest,b till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.