Who can bring: Heb. Who will give, Job 15:14, Job 25:4-6; Genesis 5:3; Psalms 51:5, Psalms 90:5; John 3:6; Romans 5:12, Romans 8:8-9; Ephesians 2:3
a clean: Luke 1:35
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Job 14:4
Job 14:4
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Job 14 — OverviewJob 14 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleJob 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 (ch. xiii.…Job 14 — OverviewJob 14 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJob 14:1, Job entreats God for favour, by the shortness of life, and certainty of death; Job 14:7, He waits for his change; Job 14:16, By sin the creature is subject to corruption.Job 14 — OverviewJob 14 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleJob, 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…Job 14:1-6Job 14:1-6 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleWe 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…Job 14:1-6Job 14:1-6 · The Pulpit CommentaryJob to God: 2. The death-wail of humanity.
I. THE WAIL OF HUMANITY IN THE EAR OF GOD.
1. The constitutional frailty of man. Moses, in the Book of Genesis (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:7), sets forth the dignity of man…Job 14:1-12Job 14:1-12 · The Pulpit Commentary1. Self-defence before God: 2. Plaint of the weakness and vanity of mankind.
Job's troubles are typical of the common doom of mankind—the "subjection, to vanity." And again (comp. Job 3:7; Job 7:1-5) he bursts forth…
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