Chapter 14
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
born
15.14 25.4 Psalms 51.5 Matthew 11.11
of few days
Heb. short of days.
7.1,6 9.25 Genesis 47.9 Psalms 39.5
full
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
like
Psalms 90.5-9 92.7,12 103.15,16 Isaiah 40.6-8 James 1.10,11 4.14 1 Peter 1.24
fleeth
8.9 9.25,26 1 Chronicles 29.15 Psalms 102.11 144.4 Ecclesiastes 8.13
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
And dost
bringest
9.19,20,32 13.27 Psalms 143.2 Romans 3.19
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Who can bring
Heb. Who will give.
15.14 25.4-6 Genesis 5.3 Psalms 51.5 90.5 John 3.6 Romans 5.12 8.8,9 Ephesians 2.3
a clean
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
his days
14 7.1 12.10 Psalms 39.4 Daniel 5.26,30 9.24 11.36 Luke 12.20 Acts 17.26 Hebrews 9.27
the number
thou hast
23.13,14 Psalms 104.9,29 Daniel 4.35 Revelation 1.18 3.7
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
Turn
rest
Heb. cease. as an hireling.
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.
that it will sprout
14 19.10 Isaiah 11.1 27.6 Daniel 4.15,23-25
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
die in the ground
Isaiah 26.19 John 12.24 1 Corinthians 15.36
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
and bring
Ezekiel 17.3-10,22-24 19.10 Romans 11.17-24
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
wasteth away
Heb. is weakened, or, cut off. man.
3.11 10.18 11.20 17.13-16 Genesis 49.33 Matthew 27.50 Acts 5.10
where is he
12 7.7-10 19.26 Proverbs 14.32 Luke 16.22,23
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
the flood
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
So man
10.21,22 30.23 Ecclesiastes 3.19-21 12.5
till the heavens
19.25-27 Psalms 102.26 Isaiah 51.6 65.17 66.22 Matthew 24.35 Acts 3.21 Romans 8.20 2 Peter 3.7,10-13 Revelation 20.11 21.1
awake
3.13 7.21 Isaiah 26.19 Daniel 12.2 John 11.11-13 Ephesians 5.14 1 Thessalonians 4.14,15
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!
hide me
until
appoint me
remember
Genesis 8.1 Psalms 106.4 Luke 23.42
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
shall he live
19.25,26 Ezekiel 37.1-14 Matthew 22.29-32 John 5.28,29 Acts 26.8 1 Corinthians 15.42-44 1 Thessalonians 4.14-16 Revelation 20.13
all the days
5 7.1 42.16 Psalms 27.14 40.1,2 Lamentations 3.25,26 James 5.7,8
will I wait
13.15 1 Corinthians 15.51,52 Philippians 3.21
Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
shalt call
13.22 Psalms 50.4,5 1 Thessalonians 4.17 1 John 2.28
thou wilt have
7.21 10.3,8 Psalms 138.8 1 Peter 4.19
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
thou numberest
10.6,14 13.27 31.4 33.11 34.21 Psalms 56.6 139.1-4 Proverbs 5.21 Jeremiah 32.19
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
sealed up
21.19 Deuteronomy 32.34 Hosea 13.12
And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
the mountain
Psalms 102.25,26 Isaiah 40.12 41.15,16 54.10 64.1 Jeremiah 4.24 Revelation 6.14 Revelation 8.8 20.11
cometh to nought
Heb. fadeth. the rock.
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.
The waters
Hence the proverb, "Constant droppings make a hole in a stone."
washest
Heb. overflowest.
destroyest
19.10 27.8 Psalms 30.6,7 Ezekiel 37.11 Luke 12.19,20
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
prevailest
changest
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
he knoweth it not
1 Samuel 4.20 Psalms 39.6 Ecclesiastes 2.18,19 9.5 Isaiah 39.7,8 63.16
But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.