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Job
Chapter
14
Chapters
4-14: The First Debate}
{Chapters
11-14: Debate with Zophar - Job's response Continues}
1~~Man
. . . born of a woman . . .
{what we have in common - we all have a mother}
{is} of few days,
and full of trouble.
{Note: All humans are born with an old sin nature and have are dark side. Another profound statement}
2~~He
springs forth like a flower
{means is born with wonderful potential - 'MY . . . what a beautiful
baby!'},
and 'is cut down'/'withers away'.
Like a fleeing shadow, he endures not.
3~~Do you fix your eyes on such a one?
Will you bring him to judgment before you?
{Note: Job is saying to his friends - 'have you picked out a victim to judge?'}
4~~Who
can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
{who are you to judge me? You don't have an old sin nature? You
never sinned or failed?}
5~~Man's
days are determined,
You
{God} have decreed the number of his months,
and
have set limits he can not exceed.
6~~Look
away from him, that he may rest,
so
he can put in his time like a hired man.
{Note: Don't bother other people. Let them alone. God sets their days as He does yours. Their life is between them and the Lord!}
{Hebrew
Poetry on the Tree}
7~~At
least there is hope for a tree.
If
it is cut down, it will sprout again,
and
its new shoots will not fail.
8~~Its
roots may grow old in the ground,
and
its stump die in the soil.
9~~Yet
at the scent of water, it will bud,
and
put forth shoots like a plant.
{Note: Remember 'water' is often a reference to the Word of God. Without it, man's soul is thirsty. A believer is like a dead stump until he receives the Water of the Word.}
10~~But man dies, and is 'laid low'/'wastes away'.
He 'breathes his last'/dies, and is no more.
11-12~~As
waters disappears from the sea,
or
the river bed becomes parched and dry, 12~~
so
man lies down, and does not rise
until
the heavens are no more.
Man will not wake, or be roused from their sleep.
13~~If only you would hide me in the grave.
And conceal me till Your anger has passed.
If only You would set me a time, and then remember me!
14~~If a man die, shall he live again?
All
the days of my hard service
I
will wait for my renewal to come
{RBT says from chapter 19 that Job understands the resurrection}.
15``You
keep on calling, and I keep on responding to You.
You
have a desire for the 'divine production'/work of Your hands.
16``Now You number my steps.
Do You not keep 'guard over'/watch my sins?
17``My
transgressions {pesha`},
having
been sealed up in a bag,
You smear me with the 'guilty of my iniquity'.
18``Nevertheless,
the mountain falling come to nothing,
and
the rock is removed out of his place.
19``The waters wear the stones.
You wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth.
And You cause the hope of man to perish.
20~~You overpower him once and for all and he is gone.
You change his countenance, and send him away.
21~~If his sons are honored, he does not know it.
If they are brought low, he does not see it.
22~~He
feels the pain of his own body,
and
mourns only for himself/'for his own soul' {nephesh}."
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