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Verse Job 14:20. _THOU PREVAILEST FOR EVER AGAINST HIM_] It is
impossible for him to withstand thee: every stroke of thine brings him
down.
_THOU CHANGEST HIS COUNTENANCE_] Probably an allusion to t...
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THOU PREVAILEST FOREVER AGAINST HIM - Thou dost always show that thou
art stronger than he is. He never shows that he is able to contend
with God.
AND HE PASSETH - He cannot stand before thee, but is...
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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 14:16 turns to the contrast of Job's present misery and hopeless
end. Now God watches Job (Job 14:16). God writes down his sins, and
seals up the indictments in a bag (Job 14:17). The mountains pe...
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10. But hope is destroyed in Sheol. (Job 14:18-22)
TEXT 14:18-22
18 BAT THE MOUNTAIN FALLING COMETH TO NOUGHT;
And the rock is removed out of its place;
19 The waters wear the stones;
The overflo...
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_THOU PREVAILEST FOR EVER AGAINST HIM, AND HE PASSETH: THOU CHANGEST
HIS COUNTENANCE, AND SENDEST HIM AWAY._
Prevailest - doest overpower by superior strength.
PASSETH - dieth.
CHANGEST COUNTENAN...
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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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Job’s thoughts about a tree gave him hope (verses 7-9). But then he
thought about the earth itself. Even mountains do not last always. Job
saw how rocks can fall from mountains. The rain takes the soi...
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תִּתְקְפֵ֣הוּ לָ֭ נֶצַח וַֽ
יַּהֲלֹ֑ךְ מְשַׁנֶּ֥ה...
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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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_Strengthened. Septuagint, "driven away." (Pagnin, &c.) --- "Thou wilt
treat him harshly." (Calmet)_...
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(16) В¶ For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my
sin? (17) My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up
mine iniquity. (18) And surely the mountain falling cometh to...
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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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THOU PREVAILEST FOR EVER AGAINST HIM,.... God is a more than a match
for man, in anything, in everything; there is no contending with him,
or standing against him, he is stronger than he, and always p...
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Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest
his countenance, and sendest him away.
Ver. 20. _Thou prevailest for ever against him_] This, and the rest
of the words to the end...
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_Thou prevailest for ever against him_ When once thou takest away this
life, it is gone for ever; for he speaks not here of man's future and
eternal life in another world. _And he passeth_ That is, he...
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Thou prevailest forever against him, overpowering him with His might,
AND HE PASSETH; THOU CHANGEST HIS COUNTENANCE, disfiguring him,
distorting his features in the agony of death, AND SENDEST HIM AWA...
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A PRAYER TO BE DELIVERED FROM HIS AFFLICTION...
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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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16-22 Job's faith and hope spake, and grace appeared to revive; but
depravity again prevailed. He represents God as carrying matters to
extremity against him. The Lord must prevail against all who co...
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When once thou takest away this life, it is gone for ever; for he
speaks not here of man's future and eternal life in another world. HE
PASSETH, i.e. he dieth, or is about to die. Man's death is oft c...
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Job 14:20 prevail H8630 (H8799) forever H5331 passes H1980 (H8799)
change H8138 (H8764) countenance H6440 away...
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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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_Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away._
MAN’S MITTIMUS
I. The change. The human countenance an instructive book. All its
changes are not of God’s working, or ordering. The sharp lines...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 14:15 Job longs for a renewal in which God would
secure his path and forgive his sin (vv. Job 14:15). But he concludes
that just as the elements wash away rock and soil, so God will we...
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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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Ecclesiastes 8:8; Job 14:14; Job 2:12; Lamentations 4:8...
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Prevailest — When once thou takest away this life, it is gone
forever. Sendest — To his long home....