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Verse Job 14:11. _THE WATERS FAIL FROM THE SEA_] I believe this
refers to _evaporation_, and nothing else. As the waters are
evaporated from the sea, and the river in passing over the sandy
desert is...
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AS THE WATERS FAIL FROM THE SEA - As the waters evaporate wholly, and
leave the bottom wholly dry, so it is with man, who passes entirely
away, and leaves nothing. But to what fact Job refers here, is...
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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 14:7 gives the reason why God should let man have what little
pleasure he can (Job 14:6): Death ends all. In Damascus it is still
customary to cut down trees, the stumps of which being watered sen...
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_fail from the sea_ i. e. the inland sea or pool, cf. Isaiah 19:5; so
in Arabic _bahr_, sea, is any mass of water whether salt or fresh, and
also a river.
_the flood_ THE STREAM. A graphic figure for...
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The irreparable extinction of man's life in death. His destiny is
sadder even than that of the tree. His sleep in death is eternal....
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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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FOR THERE IS HOPE OF A TREE, &C.— Job begins this chapter with a
reflection on the shortness and wretchedness of human life, a truth
which he had so sadly learned from experience. In his progress,
the...
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8. When man goes to his death, he does not return. (Job 14:7-12)
TEXT 14:7-12
7 FOR THERE IS HOPE OF A TREE,
If it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
And that the tender branch thereof will no...
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_AS THE WATERS FAIL FROM THE SEA, AND THE FLOOD DECAYETH AND DRIETH
UP:_
Sea - i:e., a lake, or pool formed from the outspreading of as river.
Job lived near the Euphrates; and "sea" is applied to it...
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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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At first, the tree did not seem like a man to Job. Job thought about
the death of a man’s body. That body simply returns to the earth.
Job thought that such a body could never become alive again. Perh...
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AS THE WATERS FAIL FROM THE SEA seems commonly to have been
misunderstood from its having been taken as a comparison; but there is
no particle denoting comparison in the Hebrew. Moreover, the water
ne...
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אָֽזְלוּ ־מַ֭יִם מִנִּי ־יָ֑ם וְ֝
נָהָ֗ר יֶחֱ
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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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_Sea. There would be no supply of rain for the fountains.
(Ecclesiastes i. 7.) All would continue dry: so when the blood is once
gone, life is at an end. See 2 Kings xiv. 14. (Calmet) --- The water
ca...
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(7) В¶ For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will
sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. (8)
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock the...
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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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[AS] THE WATERS FAIL FROM THE SEA,.... the words may be rendered
either without the as, and denote dissimilitude, and the sense be,
that the waters go from the sea and return again, as with the tide:...
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Job 14:11 _[As] the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth
and drieth up:_
Ver. 11. _As the waters fail from the sea_] He sets forth the same
truth by an elegant similitude drawn from d...
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_As the waters fail from the sea_ This may mean, either, 1st, _As the
waters go_, or _flow out from the sea_, and return not thither again,
Ecclesiastes 1:7: or, 2d, _As waters_, that is, some portion...
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A COMPLAINT OVER LIFE'S TROUBLES...
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As the waters fail from the sea, literally, "the waters roll off,"
disappear, out of the sea, AND THE FLOOD, a stream, DECAYETH AND
DRIETH UP, the evaporating of even large bodies of water during the...
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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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"UNTIL THE HEAVENS ARE NO MORE": Is this. hint that when the physical
universe is destroyed all the dead will be raised? (2 Peter 3:10;.
Corinthians 15). Job believes that death is like water that ev...
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7-15 Though a tree is cut down, yet, in a moist situation, shoots
come forth, and grow up as a newly planted tree. But when man is cut
off by death, he is for ever removed from his place in this worl...
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This may be understood either,
1. By way of opposition, _the waters go or flow out of the sea_, and
return thither again, ECCLESIASTES 1:7; _and a lake or river sometimes
decayeth, and drieth up_, bu...
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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 14:7 Job laments the limits of mortality by
contrasting the consequences of cutting down a TREE (vv. Job 14:7) and
the death of a man
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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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Jeremiah 15:18; Job 6:15...
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As — So it is with man. Or thus, as when the waters fail from the
sea, when the sea forsakes the place into which it used to flow, the
river which was fed by it, decayeth and drieth up without all hop...