Job 14:1

1 Job entreats God for favour, by the shortness of life, and certainty of death.

7 He waits for his change.

16 By sin the creature is subject to corruption.

born.

15:14; 25:4; Ps 51:5; Mt 11:11

of few days. Heb. short of days.

7:1,6; 9:25; Ge 47:9; Ps 39:5

full.

5:7; Ec 2:17,23

Psalms 39:5

Behold.

90:4,5,9,10; Ge 47:9; Job 7:6; 9:25,26; 14:1,2; Jas 4:14

as nothing.

89:47; 2Pe 3:8

verily.

11; 62:9; 144:4; Ec 1:2; 2:11; Isa 40:17

at his best state. Heb. settled.

Psalms 89:47-48

Remember.

39:5,6; 119:84; Job 7:7; 9:25,26; 10:9

wherefore.

144:4; Job 14:1; Jas 4:14

What.

49:7-9; Job 30:23; Ec 3:19,20; 8:8; 9:5; 12:7; Heb 9:27

see death.

Joh 8:51; Heb 11:5

shall.

49:15; Ac 2:27; 2Co 4:14

Psalms 90:3-12

Thou.

104:29; 146:4; Ge 3:19; 6:6,7; Nu 14:35; Job 12:10; 34:14,15

Ec 12:7

Return ye children of men.Rather, "Return ye children of Adam;" i.e., to that dust out of which ye were originally formed.

For.

2Pe 3:8

is past. or, when he hath passed them. and as.

Mt 14:25; 24:43; Lu 12:38

Thou.

Job 9:26; 22:16; 27:20,21; Isa 8:7,8; Jer 46:7,8

as a sleep.

73:20; Isa 29:7,8

morning.

103:15,16; Isa 40:6; Jas 1:10,11; 1Pe 1:24

groweth up. or, is changed.

92:7; Job 14:2; Mt 6:30

For we.

9,11; 39:11; 59:13; Nu 17:12,13; De 2:14-16; Heb 3:10,11,17-19

Heb 4:1,2

are we.

Ex 14:24; Ro 2:8,9

Thou.

10:11; 50:21; 139:1-4; Job 34:21; Jer 9:13-16; 16:17; 23:24

Eze 8:12; Re 20:12

our.

19:12; Pr 5:21; Ec 12:14; Lu 12:1,2; Ro 2:16; 1Co 4:5; Heb 4:12,13

1Jo 3:20

in the.

80:16

For.

78:33

passed. Heb. turned. we spend.The Vulgate has, {Anni nostri sicut aranea mediatabuntur,} "Our years pass away like those of the spider." Our plans and operations are like the spider's web. Life is as frail, and the thread of it as brittle, as one of those which constitute the well-wrought and curious, but fragile habitation of that insect. All the Versions have the word spider, but it is not found in any Hebrew MSS., or edition yet collated. The Hebrew might be rendered, "We consume our lives with a groan," {kemo hegeh.}

a tale. Heb. a meditation.

4; 39:5

The days, etc. Heb. As for the days of our years, in themare seventy years.

Ge 47:9; De 34:7

yet.

2Sa 19:35; 1Ki 1:1; Ec 12:2-7

for.

78:39; Job 14:10; *marg:

Job 24:24; Isa 38:12; Lu 12:20; Jas 4:14

Le 26:18,21,24,28; De 28:59; 29:20-29; Isa 33:14; Na 1:6; Lu 12:5

2Co 5:11; Re 6:17

So.

39:4; De 32:29; Ec 9:10; Lu 12:35-40; Joh 9:4; Eph 5:16,17

that.

Job 28:28; Pr 2:2-6; 3:13-18; 4:5,7; 7:1-4; 8:32-36; 16:16; 18:1,2

Pr 22:17; 23:12,23

apply our hearts. Heb. cause our hearts to come.

James 4:14

It is. or, For it is. a vapour.

1:10; Job 7:6,7; 9:25,26; 14:1,2; Ps 39:5; 89:47; 90:5-7; 102:3

Isa 38:12; 1Pe 1:24; 4:7; 1Jo 2:17
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