Job 14:7 NIV

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 14:7-10

Job 14:7-10. For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down If the body of a tree be cut down, and only the stem or stump be left in the ground, yet there is hope; that it will sprout again Hebrew, יחלי Š, jachalip, will yet renew itself, will revive and flourish as the spring comes on. Though the root wax old Begin to wither and decay; and the stock thereof die Namely, in outward appearance; yet, through the scent of water By means of water; scent or smell being here... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 14:1-22

Job’s reply to Zophar (12:1-14:22)The reply from Job opens with a sarcastic comment on the supposed wisdom of the three friends. They have merely been repeating general truths that everybody knows (12:1-3). They do not have the troubles Job has, and they make no attempt to understand how Job feels. A good person suffers while wicked people live in peace and security (4-6).Job does not argue with the fact that all life is in God’s hands. What worries him is the interpretation of that fact... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 14:7

For there is hope of a tree. This is a positive independent statement, about which there is no doubt. There should be a full stop here. Then the Hebrew accents mark off two hypotheses: (1) if it is cut down (Job 14:7 ) the Spring will wake its sap; (2) if waxing old (Job 14:8 ) it may still send forth a new growth. But there is no hope of man's living again like a tree. If he is to "live again" he must be raised from the dead. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 14:7

MAN GIVETH UP THE GHOST; AND WHERE IS HE?"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.Though the root thereof wax old in the earth,And the stock thereof die in the ground.Yet through the scent of water it will bud,And put forth boughs like a plant.But man dieth, and is laid low:Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?As the waters fail from the sea,And the river wasteth and drieth up;So man lieth down, and... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 14:7-16

Job 14:7-16. 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, therefore, as was natural, he seems to be casting about for arguments of support and consolation under these distressed circumstances; and particularly for proofs to confirm him in the belief of what they had received an obscure tradition of, the resurrection of mankind to another... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 14:7

7. Man may the more claim a peaceful life, since, when separated from it by death, he never returns to it. This does not deny a future life, but a return to the present condition of life. Job plainly hopes for a future state (Job 14:13; Job 7:2). Still, it is but vague and trembling hope, not assurance; excepting the one bright glimpse in Job 7:2- :. The Gospel revelation was needed to change fears, hopes, and glimpses into clear and definite certainties. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 14:1-22

Job’s despair ch. 14In this melancholic lament Job bewailed the brevity of life (Job 14:1-6), the finality of death (Job 14:7-17), and the absence of hope (Job 14:18-22)."Born of woman" (Job 14:1) reflects man’s frailty since woman who bears him is frail. Job 14:4 means, "Who can without God’s provision of grace make an unclean person clean?" (cf. Job 9:30-31; Job 25:4). God has indeed determined the life span of every individual (Job 14:5).It seemed unfair to Job that a tree could come back to... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 14:1-22

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. 3. Open thine eyes] i.e. watch so vigilantly: cp. Job 14:16, Job 14:17. 4. Job pleads the innate sinfulness of man. 5, 6. Let man spend his days in peace, seeing that his time is but short: cp. Job 7.7-12. A tree has a chance of a second growth after it is cut down. Not so man. With him death is final. Job here... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 14:1-22

Job 14:2 'I will not now ask, writes Charlotte Bronte in 1848, 'why Emily was torn from us in the fullness of an attachment, rooted up in the prime of her own days, in the promise of her powers; why her existence now lies like a field of green corn trodden down, like a tree in full bearing struck at the root. I will only say, sweet is rest after labour, and calm after tempest, and again that Emily knows that now.' Job 14:2 What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue! Burke. The Apparently... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 14:1-22

XII.BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GODJob 12:1-25; Job 13:1-28; Job 14:1-22Job SPEAKSZOPHAR excites in Job’s mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he is the third to speak. In some respects he has made the best attack from the old position, pressing most upon the conscience of Job. He has also used a curt positive tone in setting out the method and principle of Divine government and the judgment he has formed of his friend’s state. Job is accordingly the more... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 14:7-10

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 14:1-22

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 14:7

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 14:7

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 14:7-16

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 14:7

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 14:1-22

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 14:1-22

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 14:1-22

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 14:1-22

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