Job 14

Job 14:1

BOrn of a woman] Taking occasion from his adversaries words, he describeth the state of mans life, from his birth to his death. The originall of his troubles is Gods curse on the woman, Genesis 3:16. Job 15:16.

of few days] Heb. short of days.

full of trouble] Ecclesiastes 2:23.

Job 14:2

He cometh forth like a flower] Chap. 8. 9. Psalms 102:11. and Psalms 103:15. and Psalms 144:4.

Job 14:3

upon such an one] Seeing man is so frail a creature, why doth God handle him so extremely?

Job 14:4

Who can bring] Heb. Who will give.

can bring a clean thing ut of an unclean?] Psalms 51:5.

Job 14:5

Seeing his days are determined] Chap. 7. 1.

Job 14:6

Turn from him] Chap. 7. 16. 19. and 10. 20.

rest] Heb. cease.

as an hireling] Till his set time of dying come; which he desireth, as the hireling waiteth for the end of his labour, to receive his wages.

Job 14:7

there is hope of a tree] He sheweth mans bodily condition to be worse then a tree; for a tree cut down may grow again in the same place, but a man cannot.

Job 14:9

through the sent of water it will bud] That is, feeling, by a borrowed speech, as Judg. 16. 9.

Job 14:10

wasteth away] Heb. is weakned, or cut off.

and where is he?] To wit, in regard of this bodily life; for Job did believe the resurrection, chap. 19. 26.

Job 14:11

As the waters fail from the sea] When their supplies from the sea fail, Ecclesiastes 1:7.

Job 14:12

raised out of their sleep] Daniel 12:2.

Job 14:13

that thou wouldest appoint me a set time] To raise me up out of the grave again.

remember me] Genesis 8:1.

Job 14:14

all the days of my appointed time will I wait] In hope of the resurrection I will be willing to die any day.

Job 14:15

and I will answer thee] Though I be afflicted in this life, yet in the resurrection I shall feel thy mercies, and answer when thou callest.

work of thine hands] Chap. 10. 3. Psalms 138:8.

Job 14:16

For] Or, But.

now thou numbrest my steps] Psal. 139. 2, 3. Job 33:11. I dare not appear before thee now, because thou hast put off the countenance of a loving father, and put on the visage of an inexorable judge. Thou markest all my actions, to finde matter of punishment, chap. 10. 14. It may be read, Though now thou number my steps, thou wilt not watch over my sin then, to wit, in the resurrection.

Job 14:17

My transgression is sealed up in a bag] Thou layest all my sins together, that none may be unpunished, Isai. 65. 6, 7. Deuteronomy 32:34.

thou sowest up mine iniquity] Thou sowest my sins past to my present ones, to punish me for both together.

up mine] Or, it upon mine.

Job 14:18

cometh to nought] Heb. fadeth.

Job 14:19

The waters wear the stones] By continuall plagues, though light in appearance, thou wastest hardest things, and takest away such as are most deeply rooted.

washest away] Heb. over-flowest.

thou destroyest the hope of man] From returning into this world after death.

Job 14:20

and he passeth away] As one overcome.

Job 14:21

he knoweth it not] Death taketh away from him the knowledge of things dearest to him, Isaiah 63:16. Ecclesiastes 2:19.

Job 14:22

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn] Or, While his flesh is upon him, he shall have pain, and while his soul is within him, he shall mourn. Yet whilest he liveth, he shall be in pain and misery. It may be read, His flesh shall be grieved onely for it self, and his soul shall mourn onely for himself. Meaning, that dead men have no communion with the living, chap. 21. 32.