Job 14:14

If a man dies, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

In Context

13O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me!

15Thou would call, and I would answer thee. Thou would have a desire to the work of thy hands.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 19:34And Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of the years of my life that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

Job 13:15Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

Job 19:25But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth.

Job 42:16And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations.

Psalms 40:1I waited patiently for LORD, and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.

Isaiah 8:17And I will wait for LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will be a man who has trusted (LXX/NT) in him.

Matthew Henry on Job 14:8-16

Death Anticipated. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; 9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: 12 So man lieth down, and… Read the whole commentary →

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