Job 14:15

Job 14:15

13 “Oh, that You would hide me in the grave,
That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past,
That You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

14 If a man dies, shall he live again?
All the days of my hard service ^aI will wait,
Till my change comes.

15 ^aYou shall call, and I will answer You;
You shall desire the work of Your hands.

16 For now ^aYou number my steps,
But do not watch over my sin.

17 ^aMy transgression is sealed up in a bag,
And You¹ cover my iniquity.

18 “But as a mountain falls and crumbles away,
And as a rock is moved from its place;

19 As water wears away stones,
And as torrents wash away the soil of the earth;
So You destroy the hope of man.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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namely, at the resurrection (John 5:28; Psalms 17:15).

have a desire to—literally, "become pale with anxious desire:" the same word is translated "sore longedst after" (Genesis 31:30; Psalms 84:2), implying the utter unlikelihood that God would leave in oblivion the "creature of His own hands so fearfully and wonderfully made." It is objected that if Job knew of a future retribution, he would make it the leading topic in solving the problem of the permitted afflictions of the righteous. But, (1) He did not intend to exceed the limits of what was clearly revealed; the doctrine was then in a vague form only; (2) The doctrine of God's moral government in this life, even independently of the future, needed vindication.

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