Job 14:15

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

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

14If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

16But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

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Cross References

Job 7:21Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

Job 10:8“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

Psalms 50:4He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:

1 Thessalonians 4:17then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

1 John 2:28Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness and not be ashamed 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 →

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