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Verse Job 14:2. _HE COMETH FORTH LIKE A FLOWER_] This is a frequent
image both in the Old and New Testament writers; I need not quote the
places here, as the readers will find them all in the _margin_...
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HE COMETH FORTH LIKE A FLOWER, AND IS CUT DOWN - Nothing can be more
obvious and more beautiful than this, and the image has been employed
by writers in all ages, but nowhere with more beauty, or with...
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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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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...
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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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_and is cut down_ Rather, AND WITHERETH, cf. similar figures Isaiah
40:6 _seq_.; Psalms 37:2; Psalms 90:6; Psalms 103:15 _seq_....
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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...
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_HE COMETH FORTH LIKE A FLOWER, AND IS CUT DOWN: HE FLEETH ALSO AS A
SHADOW, AND CONTINUETH NOT._
(Psalms 90:6; note, Job 8:9.)...
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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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Our lives on earth are short. Job said that we are like flowers. Some
flowers are very beautiful. But they may last only for a few hours.
Or, Job said that we are like shadows. A shadow has a clear sh...
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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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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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_Shadow. Pulvis et umbra sumus. (Horace iv. Ode 7.) "Come then, ye
men, whom nature condemns to spend your days in darkness, ye who
resemble the leaves, are of little strength, formed of mud,
shadow-l...
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(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...
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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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HE COMETH FORTH LIKE A FLOWER, AND IS CUT DOWN,.... As the flower
comes from the earth, so does man; as it comes out of the stalk, so
man out of his mother's womb; as the flower flourishes for a while...
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He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a
shadow, and continueth not.
Ver. 2. _He cometh forth like a flower_] What he had asserted
concerning the shortness of man's life is...
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_He cometh forth like a flower_ Tender and delicate, fair and
beautiful, his faculties and members opening and expanding themselves
by degrees; _and is cut down_ By the scythe of some spreading malady...
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He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down, coming up quickly,
maturing rapidly, and withering as soon; HE FLEETH ALSO AS A SHADOW
AND CONTINUETH NOT, as the shadow of a cloud hastens over the
land...
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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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Human life is about as permanent as. spring flower (1 Peter 1:23-25),
or. shadow....
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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...
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HE COMETH FORTH out of his mother's womb, JOB 1:21. LIKE A FLOWER;
which quickly groweth up and maketh a fair show, but soon withereth,
or is cut down. AS A SHADOW; which being made by the sun, follow...
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Job 14:2 forth H3318 (H8804) flower H6731 away H5243 (H8799) flees
H1272 (H8799) shadow H6738 continue...
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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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_Man that is born of a woman is of few days._
THE BREVITY AND BURDEN OF LIFE
The knowledge and the conduct of mankind are very frequently at
variance. How general is the conviction of the brevity of...
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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 Chronicles 29:15; 1 Peter 1:24; Ecclesiastes 8:13; Isaiah 40:6;...
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Flower — The flower is fading, and all its beauty soon withers and
is gone. The shadow is fleeting, and its very being will soon be lost
in the shadows of night. Of neither do we make any account, in...