Job 14:13-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 14:14

If a man die, shall he live again? The question is clearly intended to be answered in the negative. It is not a dispassionate inquiry, but an expression of hopelessness. Let a man once die, and of course he cannot live again. Were it otherwise, then, Job says, all the days of my appointed time will I wait; or, rather (as in the Revised Version), all the days of my warfare would I wait ; i.e. I would patiently endure any sufferings in the larger hope that would then be open to me. I... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 14:14

The future life. "If a man die, shall he live again?" The true answer to this solemn question is the only sufficient response to the sad wail of the previous verses. "There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,… but man dieth, and wasteth away." The answer cometh from afar. It is difficult to determine the measure of light that Job had on the question of the future life. Read in the light of our New Testament teaching, some of his phrases are full of hope; but we... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 14:13

Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave; - compare the notes at Job 3:11 ff. Hebrew “in Sheol” - ב־שׁאול bı̂-she'ôl. Vulgate, “in inferno.” Septuagint ἐν ἅδῃ en Hadē - “in Hades.” On the meaning of the word “Sheol,” see the notes at Isaiah 5:14. It does not mean here, I think, the grave. It means the region of departed spirits, the place of the dead, where he wished to be, until the tempest of the wrath of God should pass by. He wished to be shut up in some place where the fury of that... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 14:14

If a man die, shall he live again? - This is a sudden transition in the thought. He had unconsciously worked himself up almost to the belief that man might live again even on the earth. He had asked to be hid somewhere - even in the grave - until the wrath of God should be overpast, and then that God would remember him, and bring him forth again to life. Here he checks himself. It cannot be, he says, that man will live again on the earth. The hope is visionary and vain, and I will endure what... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 14:13

Job 14:13. O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave The grave is not only a resting-place, but a hiding-place to the children of God: Christ has the key of the grave to open and let in now, and to let out at the resurrection. God hides his people in the grave as we hide our treasure in a place of secrecy and safety; and he that hides will find what he has hid, and nothing shall be lost. O that thou wouldst hide me, not only from the storms and troubles of this life, but for the bliss... read more

Joseph Benson

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

Job 14:14. If a man die, shall he live again? He shall not in this world, but he shall in another and better; and, therefore, all the days of my appointed time will I wait Hebrew, צבאי , tsebai, of my warfare, namely, with my spiritual enemies, or of my service and suffering, or of the station and place God has assigned me. The idea which the word conveys is partly, at least, that of a post or station given a man by God to maintain, till he be released from it, and called... 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 14:13

O. Figure of speech Ecphonesis. App-6 . the grave = Sheol. App-35 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

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

shall . . . ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6 . live again: i.e. in resurrection. Compare John 11:25 , John 11:26 . appointed time = service, or warfare. change = improvement. Hebrew. halaph = a. change for the better. See note on Leviticus 27:10 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 14:13

JOB'S HOPE OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD"Oh, that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol.That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past.That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!If a man die, shall he live again?All the days of my warfare WILL I wait,Till my release should come.Thou SHALT call, and I WILL answer thee:Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of thy hands.But now thou numberest my steps:Dost thou not watch over my sin?My transgression is sealed up in a... read more

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