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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Job 14:18

Verse Job 14:18. The mountain falling cometh to naught] Every thing in nature is exposed to mutability and decay:-even mountains themselves may fall from their bases, and be dashed to pieces; or be suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake; and, by the same means, the strongest and most massive rocks may be removed.

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See also Job 14:18 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND SURELY THE MOUNTAIN FALLING - Margin, “Fadeth.” The sense of this is, that the hope of man in regard to living again, must certainly fail - as a mountain falls and does not rise again; as the rock...

  • 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

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And surely_ Rather, BUT; cf. ch. Job 13:3-4. The "mountain falling" is the mountain from which great forces detach pieces as man is subjected to the shattering strokes of God. The second clause shew...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND SURELY THE MOUNTAIN FALLING COMETH TO NOUGHT, AND THE ROCK IS REMOVED OUT OF HIS PLACE._ Cometh to nought - literally, fadeth; a poetical image from a leaf (Isaiah 34:4). Here Job falls back int...

  • 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

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ֭ אוּלָם הַר ־נֹופֵ֣ל יִבֹּ֑ול וְ֝ צ֗וּר

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the (k) rock is removed out of his place. (k) He murmurs through the impatiency of the flesh against God, as though he used great severity agains...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • 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

    AND SURELY THE MOUNTAIN FALLING COMETH TO NOUGHT,.... Job here returns to his former subject of the irreparable state of man at death, which he illustrates by various other similes, as before; and fir...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place. Ver. 18. _And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought_] _q.d._ If thou, Lord, proceed to deal thus rig...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And surely the mountain falling cometh to naught, it crumbles to pieces under the destroying influence of the elements, AND THE ROCK IS REMOVED OUT OF HIS PLACE, growing old and decaying in the same m...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A PRAYER TO BE DELIVERED FROM HIS AFFLICTION...

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    COMETH: _ Heb._ fadeth...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Like all these things, so is man's hope, which wears away as well. "Like the crushing forces of nature, hope is destroyed" _(Jackson p. 45)._ In his present suffering, Job probably feels like. rock th...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    As when a great _mountain falls_, either by an earthquake or inundation of waters, or from any other cause, it _moulders away like a fading leaf_, (as the Hebrew word signifies,) and never recovers it...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 14:18 But H199 mountain H2022 falls H5307 (H8802) away H5034 (H8799) rock H6697 moved H6275 ...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • 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

    Isaiah 40:12; Isaiah 41:15; Isaiah 41:16; Isaiah 54:10; Isaiah 64:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And — As when a great mountain falls, by an earthquake or inundation, it moulders away like a fading leaf, (as the Hebrew word signifies) and as the rock, when by the violence of winds or earthquakes...

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