Job 14:18

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 14:1-22

Chapter 14Man 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 )Oh, what a pessimistic kind of view of life. "Man that is born of a woman is of a few days and full of troubles." Cheer up. It will soon be over. You're of few days but it's full of trouble. "Like a flower you blossom out but then you're cut down. Like the declining shadow on the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 14:1-22

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 were the visitations of sins which exceeded the strokes? Presumptions which inflict the deepest wounds, are sins which provoke the Lord. Job 14:5 . His days are determined. Two things are to be noted here, that the death of man is determined because of sin, and that his days and months are... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 14:18-19

Job 14:18-19And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought.The law of nature and of lifeIf the patriarch of Uz could listen to all the criticism of his commentators, his patience would be more severely tried than by his contemporaries.1. Job intentionally uttered a solemn truth. He speaks of the changes to which human life is subjected--great and sudden revolutions and changes--and the changes that result from the slow and silent operation of trivial causes.(1) Many things in life are fixed... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 14:18

Job 14:18 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 rigidly with me, viz. to number or cipher up my steps, to watch over my sins, to seal them up in a bag, &c., and all this in fierce wrath, that thou mayest lay load upon me; what mountain, what rock, what other creature is ever able to abide it? Job had said before, "Is my strength the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 14:18

the mountain: Psalms 102:25, Psalms 102:26, Isaiah 40:12, Isaiah 41:15, Isaiah 41:16, Isaiah 54:10, Isaiah 64:1, Jeremiah 4:24, Revelation 6:14, Revelation 8:8, Revelation 20:11 cometh to nought: Heb. fadeth the rock: Job 18:4, Matthew 27:51 read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 14:18

And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.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 it is removed out of its place, and thrown down, is never re-advanced: and as the waters by continual droppings, wear away the stones, so that they can never be made whole again: and as thou wastest away, by... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 14:18

18. And surely But. He now proceeds to sum up. Cometh to nought Decayeth. Literally, withereth like a leaf. A bold metaphor. Zophar had promised Job, if he would repent, enduring prosperity, (Job 11:15-20.) In a world, Job tacitly replies, where there is nothing substantial where things most stable are overwhelmed with destruction there is nothing for man to hope. Nature is at war with itself, and God with man. Instability characterizes every conceivable work of God’s creative... read more