George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 14:20
Strengthened. Septuagint, "driven away." (Pagnin, &c.) --- "Thou wilt treat him harshly." (Calmet)
Strengthened. Septuagint, "driven away." (Pagnin, &c.) --- "Thou wilt treat him harshly." (Calmet)
Verse Job 14:20. _THOU PREVAILEST FOR EVER AGAINST HIM_] It is impossible for him to withstand thee: every stroke of thine brings him down. _THOU CHANGEST HIS COUNTENANCE_] Probably an allusion to t...
THOU PREVAILEST FOREVER AGAINST HIM - Thou dost always show that thou art stronger than he is. He never shows that he is able to contend with God. AND HE PASSETH - He cannot stand before thee, but is...
CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR _ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_ 2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7) 3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1) 4. He appeals to God ...
JOB 14:16 turns to the contrast of Job's present misery and hopeless end. Now God watches Job (Job 14:16). God writes down his sins, and seals up the indictments in a bag (Job 14:17). The mountains pe...
_thou changest his countenance_ A graphic and pathetic description of death. The word "prevailest against," i. e. overpowerest him, refers to the last conflict and the final stroke, cf. ch. Job 15:24....
Under this severe treatment man must perish. For even the greatest and the firmest things in nature, and those most capable of resistance, are worn down by the influence of constant forces, and how mu...
This prayer for a second life is supported by a picture of the severity with which God deals with man in this life and the mournful consequences of it....
Job 13:22 to Job 14:22. Job pleads his cause before God Having ordered his cause and challenged his friends to observe how he will plead, Job now enters, with the boldness and proud bearing of one as...
10. But hope is destroyed in Sheol. (Job 14:18-22) TEXT 14:18-22 18 BAT THE MOUNTAIN FALLING COMETH TO NOUGHT; And the rock is removed out of its place; 19 The waters wear the stones; The overflo...
_THOU PREVAILEST FOR EVER AGAINST HIM, AND HE PASSETH: THOU CHANGEST HIS COUNTENANCE, AND SENDEST HIM AWAY._ Prevailest - doest overpower by superior strength. PASSETH - dieth. CHANGEST COUNTENAN...
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....
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 14 JOB CONTINUES HIS PRAYER...
Job’s thoughts about a tree gave him hope (verses 7-9). But then he thought about the earth itself. Even mountains do not last always. Job saw how rocks can fall from mountains. The rain takes the soi...
תִּתְקְפֵ֣הוּ לָ֭ נֶצַח וַֽ יַּהֲלֹ֑ךְ מְשַׁנֶּ֥ה...
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
SHALL MAN LIVE AGAIN? Job 14:1 Continuing his appeal, Job looks from his own case to _the condition of mankind generally,_ Job 14:1. All men are frail and full of trouble, Job 14:12; why should God b...
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 durat...
(16) В¶ For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? (17) My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. (18) And surely the mountain falling cometh to...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
THOU PREVAILEST FOR EVER AGAINST HIM,.... God is a more than a match for man, in anything, in everything; there is no contending with him, or standing against him, he is stronger than he, and always p...
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. Ver. 20. _Thou prevailest for ever against him_] This, and the rest of the words to the end...
_Thou prevailest for ever against him_ When once thou takest away this life, it is gone for ever; for he speaks not here of man's future and eternal life in another world. _And he passeth_ That is, he...
Thou prevailest forever against him, overpowering him with His might, AND HE PASSETH; THOU CHANGEST HIS COUNTENANCE, disfiguring him, distorting his features in the agony of death, AND SENDEST HIM AWA...
A PRAYER TO BE DELIVERED FROM HIS AFFLICTION...
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 generally tr...
16-22 Job's faith and hope spake, and grace appeared to revive; but depravity again prevailed. He represents God as carrying matters to extremity against him. The Lord must prevail against all who co...
When once thou takest away this life, it is gone for ever; for he speaks not here of man's future and eternal life in another world. HE PASSETH, i.e. he dieth, or is about to die. Man's death is oft c...
Job 14:20 prevail H8630 (H8799) forever H5331 passes H1980 (H8799) change H8138 (H8764) countenance H6440 away...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to his friends continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job. CONCLUSION: God's providence has the ordering of the period of our lives; our times are in His hand. The consideration of our i...
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 we...
_Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away._ MAN’S MITTIMUS I. The change. The human countenance an instructive book. All its changes are not of God’s working, or ordering. The sharp lines...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 14:15 Job longs for a renewal in which God would secure his path and forgive his sin (vv. Job 14:15). But he concludes that just as the elements wash away rock and soil, so God will we...
_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S PLEADING WITH GOD_ I. Pleads the common infirmity of human nature (Job 14:1). Man, from the very nature of his birth, frail and mortal, suffering and sinful. “Born of a woman.”...
EXPOSITION JOB 14:1 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 vehemence and p...
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, he's full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow [or the shadow on the sundial], and continues not (Job 14:1-2...
Ecclesiastes 8:8; Job 14:14; Job 2:12; Lamentations 4:8...
Prevailest — When once thou takest away this life, it is gone forever. Sendest — To his long home....