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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Lieth — In his bed, the grave. 'Till — Until the time of the
general resurrection, when these visible heavens shall pass away....
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Does this contradict the Bible’s teaching on the resurrection?
(See comments on Job 7:9)...