Job 14:14

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

World Messianic Bible

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

13“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!

15You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 19:34Barzillai 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. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

Job 42:16After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

Psalms 40:1I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

Isaiah 8:17I will wait for the LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for 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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