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Selected Verse: Job 14:11 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 14:11 |
Strong Concordance |
As the waters [04325] fail [0235] from the sea [03220], and the flood [05104] decayeth [02717] and drieth up [03001]: |
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King James |
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
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 (Jer 51:36; Isa 27:1). So of the Nile (Isa 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. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
As the waters fail from the sea - As the waters evaporate wholly, and leave the bottom wholly dry, so it is with man, who passes entirely away, and leaves nothing. But to what fact Job refers here, is not known. The sea or ocean has never been dried up, so as to furnish a ground for this comparison. Noyes renders it, "the lake." Dr. Good, without the slightest authority, renders it, "as the billows pass away with the tides." Herder supposes it to mean that until the waters fail from the sea man will not rise again, but the Hebrew will not bear this interpretation. Probably the true interpretation is, that which makes the word rendered sea (ים yâm) refer to a lake, or a stagnant pool; see Isa 11:15, note; Isa 19:5, note. The word is applied not unfrequently to a lake, as to the lake of Genesareth, Num 34:11; to the Dead Sea, Gen 14:3; Deu 4:49; Zac 14:8. It is used, also, to denote the Nile, Isa 19:5, and the Euphrates, Isa 27:1. It is also employed to denote the brass sea that was made by Solomon, and placed in front of the temple; Kg2 25:13. I see no reason to doubt, therefore, that it may be used here to denote the collections of water, which were made by torrents pouring down from the mountains, and which would after a little while wholly evaporate.
And the flood decayeth - The river - נהר nâhâr. Such an occurrence would be common in the parched countries of the East; see the notes at Job 6:15 ff. As such torrents vanish wholly away, so it was with man. Every vestige disappeared; compare Sa2 14:14. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| As - So it is with man. Or thus, as when the waters fail from the sea, when the sea forsakes the place into which it used to flow, the river which was fed by it, decayeth and drieth up without all hopes of recovery. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The waters fail from the sea - I believe this refers to evaporation, and nothing else. As the waters are evaporated from the sea, and the river in passing over the sandy desert is partly exsiccated, and partly absorbed; and yet the waters of the sea are not exhausted, as these vapors, being condensed, fall down in rain, and by means of rivers return again into the sea: so man is imperceptibly removed from his fellows by death and dissolution; yet the human race is still continued, the population of the earth being kept up by perpetual generations. |
12 So man [0376] lieth down [07901], and riseth [06965] not: till the heavens [08064] be no more [01115], they shall not awake [06974], nor be raised out [05782] of their sleep [08142].
5 And the waters [04325] shall fail [05405] from the sea [03220], and the river [05104] shall be wasted [02717] and dried up [03001].
1 In that day [03117] the LORD [03068] with his sore [07186] and great [01419] and strong [02389] sword [02719] shall punish [06485] leviathan [03882] the piercing [01281] serpent [05175], even leviathan [03882] that crooked [06129] serpent [05175]; and he shall slay [02026] the dragon [08577] that is in the sea [03220].
36 Therefore thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068]; Behold, I will plead [07378] thy cause [07379], and take vengeance [05358] for thee [05360]; and I will dry up [02717] her sea [03220], and make her springs [04726] dry [03001].
14 For we must needs [04191] die [04191], and are as water [04325] spilt [05064] on the ground [0776], which cannot be gathered up again [0622]; neither doth God [0430] respect [05375] any person [05315]: yet doth he devise [02803] means [04284], that his banished [05080] be not expelled [05080] from him.
15 My brethren [0251] have dealt deceitfully [0898] as a brook [05158], and as the stream [0650] of brooks [05158] they pass away [05674];
13 And the pillars [05982] of brass [05178] that were in the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and the bases [04350], and the brasen [05178] sea [03220] that was in the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], did the Chaldees [03778] break in pieces [07665], and carried [05375] the brass [05178] of them to Babylon [0894].
1 In that day [03117] the LORD [03068] with his sore [07186] and great [01419] and strong [02389] sword [02719] shall punish [06485] leviathan [03882] the piercing [01281] serpent [05175], even leviathan [03882] that crooked [06129] serpent [05175]; and he shall slay [02026] the dragon [08577] that is in the sea [03220].
5 And the waters [04325] shall fail [05405] from the sea [03220], and the river [05104] shall be wasted [02717] and dried up [03001].
8 And it shall be in that day [03117], that living [02416] waters [04325] shall go out [03318] from Jerusalem [03389]; half [02677] of them toward the former [06931] sea [03220], and half [02677] of them toward the hinder [0314] sea [03220]: in summer [07019] and in winter [02779] shall it be.
49 And all the plain [06160] on this side [05676] Jordan [03383] eastward [04217], even unto the sea [03220] of the plain [06160], under the springs [0794] of Pisgah [06449].
3 All these were joined together [02266] in the vale [06010] of Siddim [07708], which [01931] is the salt [04417] sea [03220].
11 And the coast [01366] shall go down [03381] from Shepham [08221] to Riblah [07247], on the east side [06924] of Ain [05871]; and the border [01366] shall descend [03381], and shall reach [04229] unto the side [03802] of the sea [03220] of Chinnereth [03672] eastward [06924]:
5 And the waters [04325] shall fail [05405] from the sea [03220], and the river [05104] shall be wasted [02717] and dried up [03001].
15 And the LORD [03068] shall utterly destroy [02763] the tongue [03956] of the Egyptian [04714] sea [03220]; and with his mighty [05868] wind [07307] shall he shake [05130] his hand [03027] over the river [05104], and shall smite [05221] it in the seven [07651] streams [05158], and make men go over [01869] dryshod [05275].