15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.
Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked?
Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and you answer me.
'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether; Yet you destroy me.
He calls to the heavens above, To the earth, that he may judge his people: "Gather my saints together to me, Those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
then 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.
Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.
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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.