Job 14:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

Job 14:15 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 138:8
The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
Job 13:22
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Job 7:21
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Job 10:3
Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
1 Peter 4:19
Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

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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. 15)

15. namely, at the resurrection (Joh 5:28; Psa 17:15). have a desire to--literally, “become pale with anxious desire:” the same word is translated “sore longedst after” (Ge 31:30; Psa 84:2), implying the utter unlikelihood that God would leave in oblivion the “creature of His own hands so fearfully and wonderfully made.” It is objected that if Job knew of a future retribution, he would make it the…