Job 14

Job 14:1

BOrne of a woman] whose issue is defiled and subject to Gods curse, by his sentence given against her, Genesis 3:6. Iob 1. 14.

Job 14:3

Open] thou enquirest diligently into his whole course of life for to punish him therein, although he be otherwise sufficiently wretched, see Iob 7. 17.

Job 14:4

Bring] canst thou in thy rigorous judgement finde me to be pure and perfectly just, being even from my birth stained with originall sinne which can never be blotted out in this life.

Job 14:5

Seeing his] let that great misery which he is fallen in through sinne suffice thee; namely, that he cannot escape deatly, at that prefixed time which thou hast appointed, and doe not aggravate it by extraordinary torments which may drive him to impatience or despight, see Psal. 78. 40. and 89. 48. and 103. 14 [with thee] that is to say, determined within thy councell.

Job 14:10

Where is he] namely, his body and his corporall life; for Iob did firmly believe the immortality of the soule, and the resurrection of the esh, verse 12 Ioh 29. 26.

Job 14:11

Faile from] doe resolve, and evaporate.

Job 14:12

Till the] so long as the world shall last in this present estate, untill the change and restauration which thou shalt make of it in the last day, Psal. 102. 26. Isaiah 51. 6. and 65. 11. and 66. 22 Act 3:21. Romans 8:20. 2 Pet. 3. 7. 10. 11 [not awake] namely, at the last resurrection.

Job 14:13

Hide me] ô wouldest thou but convert my death into imprisonment or restraint for a time; that when thou are appeased (which I make no question but thou wilt be) I may againe enjoy thy favour, see Iob 7. 7. 21. Isaiah 26:20.

Job 14:16

For now] I dare not at this time appeare before thee, because it should seeme thou hast put off the person of a father, and hast taken upon thee to bee an inexorable judge:[numbrest] examinest my life most rigorously, see Iob 10. 14.

Job 14:17

Sealed up] as the writings or informations of a processe which is ready to be sentenced, Deuteronomy 32:34. Hosea 13:12.

Job 14:18

And surely] all these desires of mine are vaine; there is no escaping of death.

Job 14:20

His countenance] in being, and condition.

Job 14:21

His Souncs] if God being appeased, lets the children feele the effects of his grace, that helpeth not the deceased father.

Job 14:22

Shall have paine] this poeticall representation, hath no other meaning but that the dead have no manner of communication with the living.