Job 14:14

For if a man should die, shall he live again, having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again?

LXX2012 (US English)

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

13For oh that you had kept me in the grave, and had hidden me until your wrath should cease, and you should set me a time in which you would remember me!

15Then shall you call, and I will listen to you: but do not you reject the work of your hands.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 19:34And Berzelli 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 13:15Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him.

Job 19:25For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me,

Job 42:16And Job lived after his affliction one hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation.

Psalms 40:1Blessed is the man who thinks, on the poor and needy: the Lord shall deliver him in an evil day. 1

Isaiah 8:17And one shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away his face from the house of Jacob, and I will trust 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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