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Job Asks God for Favor Because of the Shortness of Life
Job
Chapter XIV
1 Job entreats God for favor, by the shortness of life and certainty of death, 7 He waits for his change, 16 By sin the creature is subject to corruption
Job 15:14;Psa 51:5;Ecc 2:23Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
1 Pet 1:24;Jam 1:10;Isa 40:62 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Psa 144:3;Psa 143:23 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
Eph 2:3;Rom 5:12;Joh 3:54 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Psa 39:136 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
Rev 20:11;2 Pet 3:7;Rom 8:2012 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Phi 3:21;1 Cor 15:42-58;Psa 16:1014 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
1 The 4:16;Joh 5:28;Psa 50:415 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
Hos 13:12;Jer 32:19;Pro 5:2116 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
18 And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Isa 63:16;Ecc 9:5;Psa 39:621 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
Psa 49:14;Pro 14:32;Pro 14:3222 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.