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THOUGH THE ROOT THEREOF WAX OLD - Though life becomes almost extinct.
The idea is, though the root of the tree be very old, yet it does not
become wholly lifeless. It is not like an old man, when life...
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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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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...
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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....
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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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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...
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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...
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_THOUGH THE ROOT THEREOF WAX OLD IN THE EARTH, AND THE STOCK THEREOF
DIE IN THE GROUND;_ _ THOUGH THE ROOT THEREOF WAX OLD IN THE EARTH,
AND THE STOCK THEREOF DIE IN THE GROUND;_
No JFB commentary on...
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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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When Job thought about flowers and shadows (verse 2), he felt
hopeless. But then Job remembered that God also created the trees. And
trees seemed mysterious to Job.
You can cut down a tree. Its branc...
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אִם ־יַזְקִ֣ין בָּ † אָ֣רֶץ
שָׁרְשֹׁ֑ו וּ֝...
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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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_Dust. After being even exposed to the air, for a long time, some
branches will take root, like the rose of Jericho, the willow, &c._...
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(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...
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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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THOUGH THE ROOT THEREOF WAX OLD IN THE EARTH,.... Lies long there, and
is become dry, and seems to be consumed, on which account there may be
the less hope of its flourishing:
AND THE STOCK THEREOF D...
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Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof
die in the ground;
Ver. 8. _Though the root thereof wax old in the earth_] And so the
more unlikely to shoot forth again. Trees als...
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_For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down_ If the body of a tree
be cut down, and only the stem or stump be left in the ground, yet
there is hope; _that it will sprout again_ Hebrew, יחלי Š,
_ja...
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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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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...
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WAX OLD; begin to wither and decay. AND THE STOCK DIE, to wit, in
outward appearance....
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Job 14:8 root H8328 old H2204 (H8686) earth H776 stump H1503 die H4191
(H8799) ground H6083
die in the ground
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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 14:7 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
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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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1 Corinthians 15:36; Isaiah 26:19; John 12:24...
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Die — To outward appearance....