Job 14:22

The idea seems to be that man only knows his own misery. His pain is both physical and mental. "Job now abandons the traditional resolution more of man's troubles, that of leaving. prosperous family behind. But Job has no family. Whether the source be Job or classical naturalistic liberals, it is not very exciting to hope only in the survival of humanity" (Strauss p. 137).

How thrilled Job would have been had he been privileged to hear the words of the Lord Jesus, 'I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he keep on living (present tense)' (John 11:25)" (Jackson p. 45).