Job 14

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 14

Job had turned from speaking to his friends, finding it to no purpose to reason with them, and here he goes on to speak to God and himself. He had reminded his friends of their frailty and mortality (Job 13:12); here he reminds himself of his own, and pleads it with God for some mitigation of his miseries. We have here an account, I. Of man's life, that it is, 1. Short, Job 14:1. 2. Sorrowful, Job 14:1. 3. Sinful, Job 14:4. 4. Stinted, Job 14:5, 14. II. Of man's death, that it puts a final... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 14:1-6

We are here led to think, I. Of the original of human life. God is indeed its great original, for he breathed into man the breath of life and in him we live; but we date it from our birth, and thence we must date both its frailty and its pollution. 1. Its frailty: Man, that is born of a woman, is therefore of few days, Job 14:1. This may refer to the first woman, who was called Eve, because she was the mother of all living. Of her, who being deceived by the tempter was first in the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 14:7-15

We have seen what Job has to say concerning life; let us now see what he has to say concerning death, which his thoughts were very much conversant with, now that he was sick and sore. It is not unseasonable, when we are in health, to think of dying; but it is an inexcusable incogitancy if, when we are already taken into the custody of death's messengers, we look upon it as a thing at a distance. Job had already shown that death will come, and that its hour is already fixed. Now here he shows,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 14:16-22

Job here returns to his complaints; and, though he is not without hope of future bliss, he finds it very hard to get over his present grievances. I. He complains of the particular hardships he apprehended himself under from the strictness of God's justice, Job 14:16, 17. Therefore he longed to go hence to that world where God's wrath will be past, because now he was under the continual tokens of it, as a child, under the severe discipline of the rod, longs to be of age. ?When shall my change... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 14

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 14 Job, having turned himself from his friends to God, continues his address to him in this chapter; wherein he discourses of the frailty of man, the shortness of his life, the troubles that are in it, the sinfulness of it, and its limited duration, beyond which it cannot continue; all which he makes use of with God, that he would not therefore deal rigorously with him, but have pity on him, and cease from severely afflicting him, till he came to the end of his days,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 14:1

Man that is born of a woman ,.... Man, Adam; not the first man, so called, for he was made and created out of the dust of the earth, and not born of a woman; the woman was made out of him, and not he of her; "earthly man", as Mr. Broughton translates it, as every descendant of Adam is; as is the earth, such are they that are earthy, everyone of which is born of a woman; yet not as opposed unto and distinguished from the heavenly One, or the Lord from heaven, for he also as man was made and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 14:2

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down ,.... As the flower comes from the earth, so does man; as it comes out of the stalk, so man out of his mother's womb; as the flower flourishes for a while, and looks gay and beautiful, so man while in youth, in health and prosperity. Job, doubtless, has respect to his own case before his troubles came upon him, when he was possessed of all that substance, which made him the greatest man of the east; when his children were like olive plants... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 14:3

And dost thou open thine eyes on such an one ,.... So frail and feeble, so short lived and sorrowful, so soon and easily cut down and destroyed: and by opening of his eyes is not meant his providential care of men; whose eyes indeed are everywhere, run to and fro throughout the earth, and are careful of and provident for all sorts of men, which is very wonderful, Psalm 8:4 ; nor the displays of his special grace and favour towards his own peculiar people, on whom his eyes of love, grace,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an clean ?.... Either produce a clean person from an unclean one: it is not to be expected that one, perfectly free from sin, should be generated by, or brought out of, one that is defiled with it; which is the case of all men; the first man, though made upright, sinned, and by sinning defiled himself, and all human nature in him: and so those that immediately descended from him were polluted likewise, and so on in all generations, every man being... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 14:5

Seeing his days are determined ,.... Or "cut out" F9 חרוצים "exacte praefiniti sunt", Tigurine version. , exactly and precisely, how many he shall live, and what shall befall him every day of his life; whose life, because of the shortness of it, is rather measured by days than vents: the number of his months are with thee ; before him, in his sight, in his account, and fixed and settled by him: thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass ; the boundaries of his... read more

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