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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Job 14:11

As the waters fail from the sea, literally, "the waters roll off," disappear, out of the sea, and the flood, a stream, decayeth and drieth up, the evaporating of even large bodies of water during the dry season being no uncommon phenomenon in the torrid regions of the Orient,

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See also Job 14:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 14:11. _THE WATERS FAIL FROM THE SEA_] I believe this refers to _evaporation_, and nothing else. As the waters are evaporated from the sea, and the river in passing over the sandy desert is...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AS THE WATERS FAIL FROM THE SEA - As the waters evaporate wholly, and leave the bottom wholly dry, so it is with man, who passes entirely away, and leaves nothing. But to what fact Job refers here, is...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 14:7 gives the reason why God should let man have what little pleasure he can (Job 14:6): Death ends all. In Damascus it is still customary to cut down trees, the stumps of which being watered sen...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _fail from the sea_ i. e. the inland sea or pool, cf. Isaiah 19:5; so in Arabic _bahr_, sea, is any mass of water whether salt or fresh, and also a river. _the flood_ THE STREAM. A graphic figure for...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The irreparable extinction of man's life in death. His destiny is sadder even than that of the tree. His sleep in death is eternal....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR THERE IS HOPE OF A TREE, &C.— Job begins this chapter with a reflection on the shortness and wretchedness of human life, a truth which he had so sadly learned from experience. In his progress, the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    8. When man goes to his death, he does not return. (Job 14:7-12) TEXT 14:7-12 7 FOR THERE IS HOPE OF A TREE, If it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will no...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AS THE WATERS FAIL FROM THE SEA, AND THE FLOOD DECAYETH AND DRIETH UP:_ Sea - i:e., a lake, or pool formed from the outspreading of as river. Job lived near the Euphrates; and "sea" is applied to it...

  • 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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    At first, the tree did not seem like a man to Job. Job thought about the death of a man’s body. That body simply returns to the earth. Job thought that such a body could never become alive again. Perh...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AS THE WATERS FAIL FROM THE SEA seems commonly to have been misunderstood from its having been taken as a comparison; but there is no particle denoting comparison in the Hebrew. Moreover, the water ne...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אָֽזְלוּ ־מַ֭יִם מִנִּי ־יָ֑ם וְ֝ נָהָ֗ר יֶחֱ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • 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 durat...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Sea. There would be no supply of rain for the fountains. (Ecclesiastes i. 7.) All would continue dry: so when the blood is once gone, life is at an end. See 2 Kings xiv. 14. (Calmet) --- The water ca...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (7) В¶ For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. (8) Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    [AS] THE WATERS FAIL FROM THE SEA,.... the words may be rendered either without the as, and denote dissimilitude, and the sense be, that the waters go from the sea and return again, as with the tide:...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    __ Job 14:11 _[As] the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:_ Ver. 11. _As the waters fail from the sea_] He sets forth the same truth by an elegant similitude drawn from d...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _As the waters fail from the sea_ This may mean, either, 1st, _As the waters go_, or _flow out from the sea_, and return not thither again, Ecclesiastes 1:7: or, 2d, _As waters_, that is, some portion...

  • Leslie 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 generally tr...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "UNTIL THE HEAVENS ARE NO MORE": Is this. hint that when the physical universe is destroyed all the dead will be raised? (2 Peter 3:10;. Corinthians 15). Job believes that death is like water that ev...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-15 Though a tree is cut down, yet, in a moist situation, shoots come forth, and grow up as a newly planted tree. But when man is cut off by death, he is for ever removed from his place in this worl...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This may be understood either, 1. By way of opposition, _the waters go or flow out of the sea_, and return thither again, ECCLESIASTES 1:7; _and a lake or river sometimes decayeth, and drieth up_, bu...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 14:11 water H4325 disappears H235 (H8804) sea H3220 river H5104 parched H2717 (H8799) up H3001 ...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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 we...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 14:7 Job laments the limits of mortality by contrasting the consequences of cutting down a TREE (vv. Job 14:7) and the death of a man

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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.”...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Jeremiah 15:18; Job 6:15...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    As — So it is with man. Or thus, as when the waters fail from the sea, when the sea forsakes the place into which it used to flow, the river which was fed by it, decayeth and drieth up without all hop...

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