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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Job 14:15

Thou shalt call, that is, God would call to him, in granting him the discharge which he hoped for, and I will answer Thee; Thou wilt have a desire to the work of Thine hands, God would feel an affectionate yearning for Job, the poor, miserable creature, who was now groaning under such great afflictions.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 14:15. _THOU SHALT CALL_] Thou shalt say _There shall be time no_ _longer: Awake, ye dead! and come to judgment_! _AND I WILL ANSWER THEE_] My dissolved frame shall be united at thy call; a...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THOU SHALT CALL, AND I WILL ANSWER THEE - This is language taken from courts of justice. It refers, probably, not to a future time, but to the present. “Call thou now, and I will respond.” It expresse...

  • 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

    If God, moved by longing for His creatures, would only restore Job to life! He who rejuvenates the tree, could reanimate the man. Death would then be a proof of the Divine love: it would be God's hidi...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DESIRE. a longing....

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Having pursued the destiny of man through all its steps down to its lowest, its complete extinction in death, Job, with a revulsion created by the instinctive demands of the human spirit, rises to the...

  • 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

    9. Job longs for an afterlife. (Job 14:13-17) TEXT 14:13-17 13 OH THAT THOU WOULDEST HIDE ME IN SHEOL, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a s...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THOU SHALT CALL, AND I WILL ANSWER THEE: THOU WILT HAVE A DESIRE TO THE WORK OF THINE HANDS._ Namely, at the resurrection (John 5:28; Psalms 17:15). HAVE A DESIRE TO - literally, become pale with a...

  • 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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'Thou shouldest call and I would answer thee: Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of thine hands.' 16, 17. These vv. probably are not, as AV and RV take them, the present contrast to the glowin...

  • 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

    Job thought that God caused his troubles. So, Job thought that God was angry. In fact, God was not angry with Job. God was pleased with Job. And God did not cause Job’s troubles. The devil caused Job’...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    תִּ֭קְרָא וְ אָנֹכִ֣י אֶֽעֱנֶ֑ךָּ לְֽ מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thou shalt call, and I will (h) answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands. (h) Though I am afflicted in this life, yet in the resurrection I will feel your mercies and answer wh...

  • 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

    THOU SHALL CALL, AND I WILL ANSWER THEE,.... Either at death, when the soul of than is required of him, and he is summoned out of time into eternity, and has sometimes previous notice of it; though no...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands._ Ver. 15. _Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee_] At the resurrection of the just thou shalt call me o...

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

    _Thou shalt call and I will answer thee_ 1st, At death, thou shalt call my body to the grave and my soul to thyself, and I will cheerfully answer, _Here I am._ Gracious souls readily answer death's su...

  • 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

    Here is once again the hope that God would summon Job, and God would long for Job who was the work of His hands. Notice that Job did not want some sort of utopia, rather what Job wanted, what was heav...

  • 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

    I trust there is a time coming when thou wilt grant me the mercy which now thou deniest me, to wit, a favourable hearing, when thou _wilt call_ to me to speak for myself, and _I shall answer thee_; wh...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 14:15 call H7121 (H8799) answer H6030 (H8799) desire H3700 (H8799) work H4639 hands H3027 shalt call -

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Job 14:14 It was one of the accurate adjustments of God's dealings that the man whose body was the most humiliated by suffering of all mankind was also the man who of all the Old Testament saints rec...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou shalt call, and I will answer Thee._ GOD CALLING IN DEATH Mr. Moody used to say, “Some day you will read in the papers that Dwight L. Moody is dead. Don’t you believe it. When they say I am dea...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • 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

    1 John 2:28; 1 Peter 4:19; 1 Thessalonians 4:17; Job 10:3; Job 10:8;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Answer thee — Thou shalt call my soul to thyself: and I will chearfully answer, Here I am: knowing thou wilt have a desire to the work of thy hands — A love for the soul which thou hast made, and new...

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