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Job 14:5,6

Man being of few days and full of trouble Job pleads that God would not load him with uncommon afflictions, but leave him oppressed with no more than those natural to his short and evil life.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 14:5. _SEEING HIS DAYS_ ARE _DETERMINED_] The general _term_ of human life is fixed by God himself; in vain are all attempts to prolong it beyond this term. Several attempts have been made...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SEEING HIS DAYS - are “determined” Since man is so frail, and so short-lived, let him alone, that he may pass his little time with some degree of comfort and then die; see the notes at Job 7:19. The w...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    How sorrowful the lot of man, whom God so straitly overlooks! Man's life is transitory and insubstantial (Job 14:1 f.), why does God act the inquisitor with one so frail? Job 14:3. Let God cease to t...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BOUNDS. Four early printed editions read "fixed times"....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    7. So brief is man's allotted time he should be left to enjoy it. (Job 14:1-6) TEXT 14:1-6 14 MAN, THAT IS BORN OF A WOMAN, Is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, an...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _SEEING HIS DAYS ARE DETERMINED, THE NUMBER OF HIS MONTHS ARE WITH THEE, THOU HAST APPOINTED HIS BOUNDS THAT HE CANNOT PASS;_ Determined - (Job 7:1, "Is there not an appointed time to men upon earth?...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God decides how long we shall live. Job thought that he would die soon. But in fact, God had a different plan for Job (Job 42:16-17). JOB ASKS WHETHER A DEAD MAN CAN LIVE AGAIN V7 A tree is better...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אִ֥ם חֲרוּצִ֨ים ׀ יָמָ֗יו מִֽסְפַּר ־חֳדָשָׁ֥יו אִתָּ֑ךְ _חֻקָּ֥יו_

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (1) В¶ Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. (2) He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. (3) And dost thou open thine...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SEEING HIS DAYS [ARE] DETERMINED,.... Or "cut out" i, exactly and precisely, how many he shall live, and what shall befall him every day of his life; whose life, because of the shortness of it, is rat...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; Ver. 5. _Seeing his days are determined, &c._] God hath set every man b...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Seeing his days are determined_ Limited to a certain period. _The number of his months is with thee_ Exactly known to thee, and in thy power and disposal. _Thou hast appointed his bounds_, &c. Thou h...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A COMPLAINT OVER LIFE'S TROUBLES...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Seeing his days are determined, cut off, sharply bounded, THE NUMBER OF HIS MONTHS ARE WITH THEE, also established beforehand by God; THOU HAST APPOINTED HIS BOUNDS THAT HE CANNOT PASS, the term of hi...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    God has set limits beyond which man cannot go, including. span of life....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 Job enlarges upon the condition of man, addressing himself also to God. Every man of Adam's fallen race is short-lived. All his show of beauty, happiness, and splendour falls before the stroke of...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HIS DAYS; THE DAYS or (as it follows) months of his life. _Are determined_; are by thy sentence and decree limited to a certain period. WITH THEE, i.e. exactly known to thee, or in thy power and dispo...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 14:5 Since H518 days H3117 determined H2782 (H8803) number H4557 months H2320 appointed H6213 (H8804) limits...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 14:4 No mortal can work outside the LIMITS that God has set. ⇐ ⇔

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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.”...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 17:26; Daniel 11:36; Daniel 4:35; Daniel 5:26; Daniel 5:30;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Determined — Limited to a certain period. With thee — In thy power and disposal. Thou hast appointed a certain end of his days, beyond which he cannot prolong his life....

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