Job 14:15 You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made.

◄ Job 14:15 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made.

English Standard Version
You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.

New American Standard Bible
"You will call, and I will answer You; You will long for the work of Your hands.

King James Bible
Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You would call, and I would answer You. You would long for the work of Your hands.

International Standard Version
You'll call and I'll answer you; you'll long for your creatures that your hands have made.

American Standard Version
Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee: Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of thy hands.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest have a desire after the work of thy hands.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou dost call, and I -- I answer Thee; To the work of Thy hands Thou hast desire.

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

15. namely, at the resurrection (Joh 5:28; Ps 17:15).

have a desire to—literally, "become pale with anxious desire:" the same word is translated "sore longedst after" (Ge 31:30; Ps 84:2), implying the utter unlikelihood that God would leave in oblivion the "creature of His own hands so fearfully and wonderfully made." It is objected that if Job knew of a future retribution, he would make it the leading topic in solving the problem of the permitted afflictions of the righteous. But, (1) He did not intend to exceed the limits of what was clearly revealed; the doctrine was then in a vague form only; (2) The doctrine of God's moral government in this life, even independently of the future, needed vindication.