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Verse Job 14:19. _THE WATERS WEAR THE STONES_] Even the common stones
are affected in the same way. Were even _earthquakes_ and violent
concussions of nature wanting, the action of _water_, either _ru...
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THE WATERS WEAR THE STONES - By their constant attrition they wear
away even the hard rocks, and they disappear, and return no more. The
sense is, that constant changes are going on in nature, and man...
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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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THE WATERS, &C. Figure of speech _Paroemia._ App-6.
MAN. a mortal. Hebrew. _'en6sh._ App-14....
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Job 13:22 to Job 14:22. Job pleads his cause before God
Having ordered his cause and challenged his friends to observe how he
will plead, Job now enters, with the boldness and proud bearing of one
as...
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This prayer for a second life is supported by a picture of the
severity with which God deals with man in this life and the mournful
consequences of it....
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Under this severe treatment man must perish. For even the greatest and
the firmest things in nature, and those most capable of resistance,
are worn down by the influence of constant forces, and how mu...
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The turbulent waters wear away the stones of the brook by their
constant action.
_thou washest away_, &c] Rather, THE FLOODS THEREOF (i. e. of the
waters) DO WASH AWAY THE SOIL OF THE EARTH.
_and tho...
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THOU WASHEST AWAY THE THINGS, &C.— _And the inundations of waters
sweep away the soil of the earth. So the hope of man hast thou utterly
destroyed._ Heath, who renders the beginning of the 18th verse,...
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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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_THE WATERS WEAR THE STONES: THOU WASHEST AWAY THE THINGS WHICH GROW
OUT OF THE DUST OF THE EARTH; AND THOU DESTROYEST THE HOPE OF MAN._
The Hebrew order is more forcible. 'Stones themselves are worn...
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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’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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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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אֲבָנִ֤ים ׀ שָׁ֥חֲקוּ מַ֗יִם
תִּשְׁטֹֽף ־סְפִיחֶ֥יהָ עֲפַר...
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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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_Man. Hebrew and Septuagint, "the hope of man." (Haydock) --- He must
not expect to be more privileged than all other things, which time
consumes. (Calmet) --- Job again deplores human misery. (Menoch...
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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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THE WATERS WEAR THE STONES,.... Either by continual running in them,
or constant dropping upon them p; and the excavations or hollow places
they: make are never filled up again, these impressions are...
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The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow
[out] of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
Ver. 19. _The waters wear the stones_] _Gutta cavat lapidem, &...
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_As the mountain falling cometh to naught_, &c. As when a great
_mountain falls_, by an earthquake or inundation, it _moulders away
like a fading leaf_, (as the Hebrew ward signifies,) _and_ as _the
r...
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The waters wear the stones, hollowing them out by continual dripping;
THOU WASHEST AWAY THE THINGS WHICH GROW OUT OF THE DUST OF THE EARTH,
the floods of water carry away the fruitful soil very quickl...
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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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WASHEST AWAY:
_ Heb._ overflowest...
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Finally death arrives even to the strongest of men, and their
appearance, the flesh once flush with life, becomes pale at death....
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Job 14:19 water H4325 away H7833 (H8804) stones H68 away H7857 (H8799)
H5599 soil H6083 earth...
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Job 14:19
I. As "the waters wear the stones," they teach us a lesson of
perseverance. They write upon the rocks a parable of patient
diligence. There are some things which must be done at a stroke, on...
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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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_And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought._
THE LAW OF NATURE AND OF LIFE
If the patriarch of Uz could listen to all the criticism of his
commentators, his patience would be more severely tr...
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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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Ezekiel 37:11; Genesis 6:17; Genesis 7:21; Job 19:10; Job 27:8;...