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Verse Job 14:10. _BUT MAN DIETH_] No human being ever can spring from
the dead body of man; that wasteth away, corrupts, and is dissolved;
for the man dies; and when he breathes out his last breath, a...
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BUT MAN DIETH AND WASTETH AWAY - Margin, “Is weakened, or cut
off.” The Hebrew word (חלשׁ _châlash_) means to overthrow,
prostrate, discomfit; and hence, to be weak, frail, or waste away. The
Septuag...
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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. strong man. Hebrew. _geber._ App-14.
WASTETH AWAY. will decompose.
GIVETH UP, &C. See note on Job 3:11.
WHERE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
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DISCOURSE: 464
DEATH
Job 14:10. _Man giveth up the ghost, and where is he_ [Note: This is
inserted, not as a set Discourse, but merely as a specimen of an easy,
popular, and extemporaneous Address on...
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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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_BUT MAN DIETH, AND WASTETH AWAY: YEA, MAN GIVETH UP THE GHOST, AND
WHERE IS HE?_
Man ... man. Two distinct Hebrew words are here used х_ GEBER_
(H1397), a mighty man]; though mighty, he dies х_ 'AAD...
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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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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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וְ גֶ֣בֶר יָ֭מוּת וַֽ יֶּחֱלָ֑שׁ וַ
יִּגְוַ֖ע
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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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(d) But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and
where [is] he?
(d) He speaks here not as though he had no hope of immortality but as
a man in extreme pain, when reason is overc...
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_Is he? Will he naturally come to life again?_...
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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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BUT MAN DIETH, AND WASTETH AWAY,.... All men, every man, "Geber", the
mighty man, the strong man; some die in their full strength; the wise
man, notwithstanding all his wisdom and knowledge, and even...
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But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and
where [is] he?
Ver. 10. _But man dieth, and wasteth away_] Heb. Strong and lusty
man, _Homo quantum vis robustus_ (Vat.), dieth and...
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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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But man dieth and wasteth away, lying there prostrate; YEA, MAN GIVETH
UP THE GHOST, expiring miserably, without the hope of rejuvenation,
AND WHERE IS HE? What becomes of him, of his proud body? Cf
E...
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A COMPLAINT OVER LIFE'S TROUBLES...
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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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WASTETH AWAY:
_ Heb._ is weakened, or cut off...
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"AND WHERE IS HE?" In the New Testament we will find that the
righteous man is in. much better place (Philippians 1:21)....
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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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DIETH, AND WASTETH AWAY; his body by degrees rotting away; or, _and is
cut off_, as this word is used, EXODUS 17:13 ISAIAH 14:12. WHERE IS
HE? i.e. he is nowhere; or, he is not, to wit, in this world,...
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Job 14:10 man H1397 dies H4191 (H8799) away H2522 (H8799) he H120 last
H1478 (H8799)
wasteth away - Heb. i
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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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_But man dieth. .. and where is he?_
AM I TO LIVE FOREVER
I. The belief indicated that man’s nature is two fold. There are two
distinct processes ever going on within our frame. We may lose our
physi...
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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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Acts 5:10; Genesis 49:33; Job 10:18; Job 11:20; Job 14:12;...
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Man — Two words are here used for man. Geber, a mighty man, tho'
mighty, dies. Adam, a man of earth, returns to it. Before death, he is
dying daily, continually wasting away. In death, he giveth up th...