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Verse Job 14:12. _SO MAN LIETH DOWN_] He falls asleep in his bed of
earth.
_AND RISETH NOT_] Men shall not, like cut down trees and plants,
reproduce their like; nor shall they arise till the heaven...
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SO MAN LIETH DOWN, AND RISETH NOT - He lies down in the grave and does
not rise again on the earth.
TILL THE HEAVENS BE NO MORE - That is, never; for such is the fair
interpretation of the passage, an...
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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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MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14....
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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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_till the heavens be no more_ i. e. never; cf. Psalms 72:7, Till there
be no moon. The heavens are eternal, cf. Jeremiah 31:35-36; Psalms
89:29;...
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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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_SO MAN LIETH DOWN, AND RISETH NOT: TILL THE HEAVENS BE NO MORE, THEY
SHALL NOT AWAKE, NOR BE RAISED OUT OF THEIR SLEEP._
Heavens be no more. This only implies that Job had no hope of living
again in...
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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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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...
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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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וְ אִ֥ישׁ שָׁכַ֗ב וְֽ לֹא ־יָ֫ק֥וּם
עַד
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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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_Till. At that time, the general resurrection will take place.
(Vatable) (Scultet.) --- But people will never revive, according to
the course of nature. In St. Matthew v. 18., and Psalm lxxi. 7., till...
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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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SO MAN LIETH DOWN,.... Or "and", or "but man lieth down" b; in the
grave when he dies, as on a bed, and takes his rest from all his
labours, toil and troubles, and lies asleep, and continues so till t...
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So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens [be] no more, they
shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Ver. 12. _So man lieth down_] _sc._ In the dust of death, or in the
bed of th...
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_So man lieth down_ In his bed the grave, sleeping the sleep of death.
_And riseth not till the heavens be no more_ That is, until the time
of the general resurrection and restitution of all things, w...
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A COMPLAINT OVER LIFE'S TROUBLES...
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so man lieth down and riseth not, there will be no return for him to
this earthly life, TILL THE HEAVENS BE NO MORE; THEY SHALL NOT AWAKE
NOR BE RAISED OUT OF THEIR SLEEP, they sleep the long sleep of...
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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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MAN LIETH DOWN, to wit, in his bed, the grave, or to sleep the sleep
of death, as this phrase is used, Genesis 46:30 Deuteronomy 31:6 2
Samuel 7:12...
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Job 14:12 man H376 down H7901 (H8804) rise H6965 (H8799) heavens H8064
more H1115 awake H6974 ...
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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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_Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out
of their sleep._
THE SLEEP OF DEATH
1. Death is like sleep in its outward appearance. This likeness should
remind us, when we li...
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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 Thessalonians 4:14; 1 Thessalonians 4:15; 2 Peter 3:10; 2 Peter 3:7;...
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Does this contradict the Bible’s teaching on the resurrection?
(See comments on Job 7:9)...