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Verse Job 14:5. _SEEING HIS DAYS_ ARE _DETERMINED_] The general
_term_ of human life is fixed by God himself; in vain are all attempts
to prolong it beyond this term. Several attempts have been made...
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SEEING HIS DAYS - are “determined” Since man is so frail, and so
short-lived, let him alone, that he may pass his little time with some
degree of comfort and then die; see the notes at Job 7:19. The w...
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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 ...
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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 t...
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BOUNDS. Four early printed editions read "fixed times"....
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Man being of few days and full of trouble Job pleads that God would
not load him with uncommon afflictions, but leave him oppressed with
no more than those natural to his short and evil life....
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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...
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7. So brief is man's allotted time he should be left to enjoy it. (Job
14:1-6)
TEXT 14:1-6
14 MAN, THAT IS BORN OF A WOMAN,
Is of few days, and full of trouble.
2 He cometh forth like a flower, an...
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_SEEING HIS DAYS ARE DETERMINED, THE NUMBER OF HIS MONTHS ARE WITH
THEE, THOU HAST APPOINTED HIS BOUNDS THAT HE CANNOT PASS;_
Determined - (Job 7:1, "Is there not an appointed time to men upon
earth?...
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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....
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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...
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God decides how long we shall live. Job thought that he would die
soon. But in fact, God had a different plan for Job (Job 42:16-17).
JOB ASKS WHETHER A DEAD MAN CAN LIVE AGAIN
V7 A tree is better...
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אִ֥ם חֲרוּצִ֨ים ׀ יָמָ֗יו מִֽסְפַּר
־חֳדָשָׁ֥יו אִתָּ֑ךְ _חֻקָּ֥יו_
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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 shadow, and continueth not. (3) And dost thou open thine...
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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...
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SEEING HIS DAYS [ARE] DETERMINED,.... Or "cut out" i, exactly and
precisely, how many he shall live, and what shall befall him every day
of his life; whose life, because of the shortness of it, is rat...
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Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with
thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Ver. 5. _Seeing his days are determined, &c._] God hath set every man
b...
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_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 disposal. _Thou hast appointed his bounds_, &c. Thou h...
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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...
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God has set limits beyond which man cannot go, including. span of
life....
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1-6 Job enlarges upon the condition of man, addressing himself also
to God. Every man of Adam's fallen race is short-lived. All his show
of beauty, happiness, and splendour falls before the stroke of...
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HIS DAYS; THE DAYS or (as it follows) months of his life. _Are
determined_; are by thy sentence and decree limited to a certain
period. WITH THEE, i.e. exactly known to thee, or in thy power and
dispo...
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Job 14:5 Since H518 days H3117 determined H2782 (H8803) number H4557
months H2320 appointed H6213 (H8804) limits...
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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...
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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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 14:4 No mortal can work outside the LIMITS that God
has set.
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_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.”...
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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...
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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...
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Acts 17:26; Daniel 11:36; Daniel 4:35; Daniel 5:26; Daniel 5:30;...
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Determined — Limited to a certain period. With thee — In thy power
and disposal. Thou hast appointed a certain end of his days, beyond
which he cannot prolong his life....