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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 14:7-12

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 send forth new shoots. Job refers to such a practice, which shows the indomitable vitality of tree life (Job 14:7). But man, when he dies, knows no rejuvenation (Job 14:10 f.).

Job 14:11 may perhaps be a gloss, quoted from Isaiah 19:5, where both the sea and the river mean the Nile.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 14:7. _FOR THERE IS HOPE OF A TREE_] We must not, says _Calmet_, understand this of an _old tree_, the stem and roots of which are _dried up_ and _rotted_: but there are some trees which gr...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THERE IS HOPE OF A TREE - This passage to Job 14:12, is one of exquisite beauty. Its object is to state reasons why man should be permitted to enjoy this life. A tree, if cut down, might spring up...

  • 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 ...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FOR THERE IS HOPE OF. TREE. This is. positive independent statement, about which there is no doubt. There should be. full stop here. Then the Hebrew accents mark off two hypotheses: (1) if it is cut d...

  • 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

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  • 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....

  • 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

    _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._ Man may the more claim a peaceful life, since, when separated from it by...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֤י יֵ֥שׁ לָ † עֵ֗ץ תִּ֫קְוָ֥ה אִֽם...

  • 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

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THERE IS HOPE OF A TREE, IF IT BE CUT DOWN, THAT IT WILL SPROUT AGAIN,.... That is, if it be cut down to the root, and only the stump of the root is left in the ground, as the tree in Nebuchadnezz...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A COMPLAINT OVER LIFE'S TROUBLES...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, the stump sending up a new shoot, AND THAT THE TENDER BRANCH THEREOF, the suckling which is thus growing up, WILL NOT CEASE....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Here Job makes. contrast between man and trees, which he considers to be and example of unfairness. Even. tree that has been cut down can come back to life. This is even true if the roots are old, the...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    But man, though a far nobler creature, is in a much worse condition, and when once he loseth this present and worldly life, he never recovers it; therefore show some pity to him, and give him some com...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 14:7 is H3426 hope H8615 tree H6086 down H3772 (H8735) again H2498 (H8686) shoots H3127 cease...

  • 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

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  • 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

    Daniel 4:15; Daniel 4:23; Isaiah 11:1; Isaiah 27:6; Job 14:14;...

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