Job 14:11 As the water of a lake dries up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,

◄ Job 14:11 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
As the water of a lake dries up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,

English Standard Version
As waters fail from a lake and a river wastes away and dries up,

New American Standard Bible
"As water evaporates from the sea, And a river becomes parched and dried up,

King James Bible
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,

International Standard Version
As water disappears from the sea, or water evaporates from a river,

American Standard Version
As the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up;

Douay-Rheims Bible
As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up:

Darby Bible Translation
The waters recede from the lake, and the river wasteth and drieth up:

Young's Literal Translation
Waters have gone away from a sea, And a river becometh waste and dry.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

14:7-15 Though a tree is cut down, yet, in a moist situation, shoots come forth, and grow up as a newly planted tree. But when man is cut off by death, he is for ever removed from his place in this world. The life of man may fitly be compared to the waters of a land flood, which spread far, but soon dry up. All Job's expressions here show his belief in the great doctrine of the resurrection. Job's friends proving miserable comforters, he pleases himself with the expectation of a change. If our sins are forgiven, and our hearts renewed to holiness, heaven will be the rest of our souls, while our bodies are hidden in the grave from the malice of our enemies, feeling no more pain from our corruptions, or our corrections.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

11. 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.