Job 14:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

Job 14:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 19:5
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
Job 6:15-18
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; …
Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

Topics

Dead (people)Death Dying Life Man Sleep

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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. J…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. sea--that is, a lake, or pool formed from the outspreading of a river. Job lived near the Euphrates: and “sea” is applied to it (Jr 51:36; Is 27:1). So of the Nile (Is 19:5). fail--utterly disappeared by drying up. The rugged channel of the once flowing water answers to the outstretched corpse (“lieth down,” Job 14:12) of the once living man.