Job 14:15
At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
In Context
16For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.
Cross References
Job 7:21And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
Job 10:8Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.
Psalms 50:4His voice will go out to the heavens and to the earth, for the judging of his people:
1 Thessalonians 4:17Then we who are still living will be taken up together with them into the clouds to see the Lord in the air: and so will we be for ever with the Lord.
1 John 2:28And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.
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 →