Job 14:22

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
flesh	בְּ֭שָׂרוֹ be.sa.ro	H1320	flesh (from its freshness) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
pain	יִכְאָ֑ב yikh.'Av	H3510	properly · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
soul	וְ֝נַפְשׁ֗וֹ ve.naf.Sho	H5315	properly · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
mourn	תֶּאֱבָֽל te.'e.Val	H56	to bewail · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular

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Cross-references

Job 19:26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Job 19:20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Job 19:22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job 33:19-21 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
Luke 16:23-24 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 14:16–end

Job here returns to his complaints; and, though he is not without hope of future bliss, he finds it very hard to get over his present grievances. I. He complains of the particular hardships he apprehended himself under from the strictness of God's justice, Job 14:16, Job 14:17. Therefore he longed to go hence to that world where God's wrath will be past, because now he was under the continual tokens of it, as a child, under the severe discipline of the rod, longs to be of age. "When shall my change come? For now thou seemest to me to number my steps, and watch over my sin, and seal it up in a bag, as bills of indictment are kept safely, to be produced against the prisoner." See Deu 32:34. "T…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 14:22

"Flesh" and "soul" describe the whole man. Scripture rests the hope of a future life, not on the inherent immortality of the soul, but on the restoration of the body with the soul. In the unseen world, Job in a gloomy frame anticipates, man shall be limited to the thought of his own misery. "Pain is by personification, from our feelings while alive, attributed to the flesh and soul, as if the man could feel in his body when dead. It is the dead in general, not the wicked, who are meant here." Next: Job Chapter 15

John Gill on Job 14:22

But his flesh upon him shall have pain,.... Either he shall be chastened with strong pains on his sick and dying bed; which is the reason why he neither rejoices at the happiness of his family, nor is distressed at their misfortunes; having so much pain in his flesh and bones to endure himself; or, as Gussetius (x) renders it, "for this" his flesh and soul shall have pain and grief while he lives, because he cannot know how it will be with his family when he is dead; but rather this is to be understood of a man when dead; and so it is a continuation of the description of death, or of the state of the dead; thus Aben Ezra interprets it of his flesh upon him, that is, his body shall melt away,…

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The Church Fathers

"His flesh shuddered with pain. The slave of the flesh deplores his fate; he groans like the animal; the spiritual man, on the contrary, knows well that if the exterior is destroyed, the interior is renewed from day to day (2): it experiences it in itself.
— Augustine of Hippo, ANNOTATIONS ON THE BOOK OF JOB (tr. J. Litteral, draft)

Ver. 22. But his flesh while he liveth shall have pain, and His soul shall mourn over himself. Concerning the married Paul saith, Nevertheless, such shall have trouble in the flesh. But they may 'have trouble in the flesh here,' who are even now leading spiritual lives. Wherefore then is it said as it were in a special sense, that there is 'trouble of the flesh' to married persons, seeing that it is not far removed even from the life of the spiritual; excepting that those commonly meet with worse troubles from the flesh, who delight themselves with the pleasures of the flesh? And it is well said, And his soul within him shall mourn over himself; in that whosoever desires to rejoice in himself, by this alone is henceforth in woe, viz. that he has gone far from the true joy. For the true joy of the soul is the Creator. Therefore it is meet that man should ever find in himself sorrow, who, forsaking His Creator, sought joy in himself.
— Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XII

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Dictionary and topics

Pain · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning

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Job 14:22

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 14:16–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 14:22

John Gill on Job 14:22

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Job 14:22

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 14:16–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 14:22

John Gill on Job 14:22

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Job 14:20–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Job 14:22

Rashi on Job 14:22