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Verse Job 14:21. _HIS SONS COME TO HONOUR_] When dead, he is equally
indifferent and unconscious whether his children have met with a
splendid or oppressive lot in life; for as to this world, when man...
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HIS SONS COME TO HONOUR, AND HE KNOWETH IT NOT - He is unacquainted
with what is passing on the earth. Even should that occur which is
most gratifying to a parent’s heart; should his children rise to...
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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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_HIS SONS COME TO HONOUR, AND HE KNOWETH IT NOT; AND THEY ARE BROUGHT
LOW, BUT HE PERCEIVETH IT NOT OF THEM._
One striking trait is selected from the sad picture of the severance
of the dead from all...
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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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יִכְבְּד֣וּ בָ֭נָיו וְ לֹ֣א יֵדָ֑ע
וְ֝ יִצְעֲ
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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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Or dishonour. He cannot naturally be informed. (Menochius) --- God
may, however, reveal to souls departed, what may increase their
accidental happiness or misery. (Haydock) --- Hence the Church prays...
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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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HIS SONS COME TO HONOUR,.... Or "are multiplied" s, see Nahum 3:15;
their families increase like a flock, become very numerous, which was
reckoned a great blessing; or "become heavy" t; being loaded w...
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His sons come to honour, and he knoweth [it] not; and they are brought
low, but he perceiveth [it] not of them.
Ver. 21. _His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not_] While he
lieth sick, he rega...
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_His sons come to honour_ Hebrews יכבדו, _jicbedu:_ increase
either in number or in greatness. The LXX. render it, πολλων
δε γενομενων, _become many;_ and the word ויצערו,
_vejitzgnaru, and they are b...
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His sons come to honor, or, "should his children be in honor?" AND HE
KNOWETH IT NOT; AND THEY ARE BROUGHT LOW, abased and disgraced; BUT HE
PERCEIVETH IT NOT OF THEM. Man in the realm of death is utt...
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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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Death also separates us from all that we knew and loved in his life.
"In death. parent cannot see his sons honored nor can he sympathize
with their problems" _(Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 736)._ Man dies...
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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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HE KNOWETH IT NOT; either,
1. Is ignorant of all such events; or,
2. Is not concerned nor affected with them. A dead or dying man minds
not these things....
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Job 14:21 sons H1121 honor H3513 (H8799) know H3045 (H8799) low H6819
(H8799) perceive H995 ...
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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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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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1 Samuel 4:20; Ecclesiastes 2:18; Ecclesiastes 2:19; Ecclesiastes 9:5;...
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Knoweth not — Either is ignorant of all such events: or, is not
concerned or affected with them. A dead or dying man minds not these
things....