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Text -- Job 14:1-6 (NET)
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Context
The Brevity of Life
14:1 “Man , born of woman , lives but a few days , and they are full of trouble .
14:2 He grows up like a flower and then withers away ; he flees like a shadow , and does not remain .
14:3 Do you fix your eye on such a one ? And do you bring me before you for judgment ?
14:4 Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean ? No one !
14:5 Since man’s days are determined , the number of his months is under your control ; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.
14:6 Look away from him and let him desist , until he fulfills his time like a hired man .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Job |
Readings, Select |
Death |
FLOWERS |
Employee |
Life |
Heredity |
Wicked |
Servant |
Depravity of Mankind |
Sin |
REGENERATION |
BOUNDS |
ACCOMPLISH |
Hireling |
DETERMINE |
FALL, THE |
Afflictions |
FOREKNOW; FOREKNOWLEDGE |
Afflictions and Adversities |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes: Job 14:1 The third expression is “consumed/full/sated – with/of – trouble/restlessness.” The latter word, רֹגֶ&...
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NET Notes: Job 14:2 The verb is “and he does not stand.” Here the verb means “to stay fixed; to abide.” The shadow does not stay fixed, but contin...
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NET Notes: Job 14:3 The text clearly has “me” as the accusative; but many wish to emend it to say “him” (אֹתוֹ, R...
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NET Notes: Job 14:4 The point being made is that the entire human race is contaminated by sin, and therefore cannot produce something pure. In this context, since man is ...
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NET Notes: Job 14:5 Job is saying that God foreordains the number of the days of man. He foreknows the number of the months. He fixes the limit of human life which cannot...
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