Job 14:15
Do thou call, and I will truly answer thee: have a desire for the work of thy hands.
Leeser Tanakh
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
16Yet now thou numberest my steps: and thou waitest not with [the punishment of] my sin.
Cross References
Job 7:21And why wilt thou not forgive my transgression, and let my iniquity pass away? for soon must I lie down in the dust; and thou wilt seek for me, but I shall be no more.
Job 10:8Thy hands have carefully fashioned me and made me; every thing is in harmony all round about; and yet thou dost destroy me!
Psalms 50:4He will call to the heavens above, and to the earth, to judge his people.
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 →