5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
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5 Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
5 If determined are his days, The number of his months `are' with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;
5 If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, [and] thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass,
5 Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with you, And you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;
5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
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Commentary on Job 14 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 14
Job had turned from speaking to his friends, finding it to no purpose to reason with them, and here he goes on to speak to God and himself. He had reminded his friends of their frailty and mortality (ch. 13:12); here he reminds himself of his own, and pleads it with God for some mitigation of his miseries. We have here an account,
This chapter is proper for funeral solemnities; and serious meditations on it will help us both to get good by the death of others and to get ready for our own.
Job 14:1-6
We are here led to think,
Job 14:7-15
We have seen what Job has to say concerning life; let us now see what he has to say concerning death, which his thoughts were very much conversant with, now that he was sick and sore. It is not unseasonable, when we are in health, to think of dying; but it is an inexcusable incogitancy if, when we are already taken into the custody of death's messengers, we look upon it as a thing at a distance. Job had already shown that death will come, and that its hour is already fixed. Now here he shows,
Job 14:16-22
Job here returns to his complaints; and, though he is not without hope of future bliss, he finds it very hard to get over his present grievances.