Job 14
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 14, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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Man {that is} born of a woman {is} of few days, and full of trouble. {few...: Heb. short of days}
Job 14:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Job 14:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
Job 14:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who can bring a clean {thing} out of an unclean? not one. {can...: Heb. will give}
Job 14:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Seeing his days {are} determined, the number of his months {are} with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Job 14:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. {rest: Heb. cease}
Job 14:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Job 14:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
Job 14:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Yet} through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Job 14:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where {is} he? {wasteth...: Heb. is weakened, or, cut off}
Job 14:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{As} the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
Job 14:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens {be} no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Job 14:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 14:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If a man die, shall he live {again}? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Job 14:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
Job 14:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
Job 14:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My transgression {is} sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
Job 14:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place. {cometh...: Heb. fadeth}
Job 14:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow {out} of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man. {washest...: Heb. overflowest}
Job 14:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Job 14:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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His sons come to honour, and he knoweth {it} not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth {it} not of them.
Job 14:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
Job 14:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.