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Job 14:20 King James Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
prevailest--dost overpower by superior strength.

passeth--dieth.

changest countenance--the change in the visage at death. Differently (Dan 5:9).
 
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9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.
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!
14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
16 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.
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.
16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
27 God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.