Job 14

Treated in 15 passages across the library.

  • 14:4 Who can bring what is clean out of what is unclean? No one! 8
  • 14:1 A human being, born of a woman, lives few days, and those days are full of trouble. 2
  • 14:5 Since their days are fixed, and the number of their months is in your hands, since you have set limits that they cannot cross, 2
  • 14:14 If a mortal dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I would wait until my release came. 2
  • 14:13 If only you would hide me in Sheol and keep me out of sight until your anger has passed, then set a time for me and remember me! 1
  • 14:15 You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the creature your hands have made. 1
  • 14:22 They feel only the pain of their own body; they mourn only for themselves. 1

Open Word Bible

  1. Communion with God · John Owen

    The nature of purchased grace cites Job xiv. 4

    …unclean, defiled, — habitually so; for “Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?” Job xiv. 4; “That which is born of the flesh is flesh,” John iii. 6. It is in the pollution of our…

  2. Christ the Healer · F. F. Bosworth

    Did Jesus Redeem Us from Our Diseases When He Atoned for Our Sins? cites Job 14:22

    …1:2; 8:8; II Chron. 16:12; 21:15; and other texts. The word makob is rendered “pain” in Job 14:22; 33:19, etc. Therefore the prophet is saying, in this 4th verse, “Surely He hath borne…

  3. The Bondage of the Will · Martin Luther

    Discussion: Part the Second cites Job xiv. 4

    …be wicked from a wicked seed? As Ps. li. 5, saith, “Behold I was conceived in sin.” And Job xiv. 4, “Who can make that clean which is conceived from unclean seed?” For although God did not…

  4. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.2 The Second Commandment cites Job 14: 4

    …you, make you clean.’ Isa 1: 16. But ‘who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?’ Job 14: 4. Therefore the precept is turned into a promise. ‘From all your filthiness will I cleanse…

  5. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 1, Chapter 16 — The World, Created by God, Still Cherished and Protected by Him cites Job 14:5

    …should extend, but that he determined and fixed the bounds which could not be passed (Job 14:5). Still, in relation to our capacity of discernment, all these things appear fortuitous.…

  6. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 2, Chapter 1 — Through the Fall and Revolt of Adam, the Whole Human Race Made Accursed and Degenerate cites Job 14:4

    …polluted. “Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one,” says the Book of Job (Job 14:4). 6. We thus see that the impurity of parents is transmitted to their children, so that…

  7. The Key Teachings of E. M. Bounds · Ochorus Originals

    Call upon Me in the Day of Trouble cites JOB 14:1

    …be bitterly surprised. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. JOB 14:1 He was equally clear that trouble is not proof of God’s anger. Job was the most upright…

  8. The Key Teachings of Charles G. Finney · Ochorus Originals

    Depravity and the Will cites JOB 14:4

    …work of grace can make us new. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. JOB 14:4 Third, read the rest of Finney with this in mind. His practical counsel on prayer…

  9. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    March cites Job 14:1

    …shalt abide with him forever. March 10 “Man ... is of few days, and full of trouble.” (Job 14:1) It may be of great service to us, before we fall asleep, to remember this mournful fact…

  10. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    May cites Job 14:14

    …and teach me the wisdom of faith. May 6 “All the days of my appointed time will I wait.” (Job 14:14) A little stay on earth will make heaven more heavenly. Nothing makes rest so sweet as…

  11. A Call to the Unconverted · Richard Baxter

    Sermon I cites Job xiv. 4

    …we are all now born into the world; for, “Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?” Job xiv. 4. As a lion hath a fierce and cruel nature before it doth devour; and an adder hath a…

  12. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 12 — Necessity of Contemplating the Judgment-seat of God, in Order to Be Seriously Convinced of the Doctrine of Gratuitous Justification cites Job 14:5

    …in “iniquity like water.” For “who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one,” (Job 14:5). Then we shall experience the truth of what Job said of himself: “If I justify myself…

  13. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Extracts from Old Writers cites Job xiv. 4

    …‘But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.’ (Job xiv. 4; Isa. lxiv. 6.) ‘There is none righteous, no not one; there is none that understandeth…

  14. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Sanctification cites Job 14:4

    …Job propounds a question. ‘Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?’ Job 14:4. God can do it. Out of an unholy heart he can produce grace. Oh! make David’s prayer your…

  15. Unspoken Sermons · George MacDonald

    The Voice of Job cites Job xiv. 13-15

    …call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.' — Job xiv. 13-15. The book of Job seems to me the most daring of poems: from a position of the most…