10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good. The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be. As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, So he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.
So man lies down and doesn't rise; Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.
"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
"'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness, If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;' Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it? Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, Or descend together into the dust?"
After my skin is destroyed, Then in my flesh shall I see God,
Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.
It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
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Commentary on Job 14 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 14
Job had turned from speaking to his friends, finding it to no purpose to reason with them, and here he goes on to speak to God and himself. He had reminded his friends of their frailty and mortality (ch. 13:12); here he reminds himself of his own, and pleads it with God for some mitigation of his miseries. We have here an account,
This chapter is proper for funeral solemnities; and serious meditations on it will help us both to get good by the death of others and to get ready for our own.
Job 14:1-6
We are here led to think,
Job 14:7-15
We have seen what Job has to say concerning life; let us now see what he has to say concerning death, which his thoughts were very much conversant with, now that he was sick and sore. It is not unseasonable, when we are in health, to think of dying; but it is an inexcusable incogitancy if, when we are already taken into the custody of death's messengers, we look upon it as a thing at a distance. Job had already shown that death will come, and that its hour is already fixed. Now here he shows,
Job 14:16-22
Job here returns to his complaints; and, though he is not without hope of future bliss, he finds it very hard to get over his present grievances.