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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 14:12 - 14:12
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heavens be no more - This only implies that Job had no hope of living again in the present order of the world, not that he had no hope of life again in a new order of things. Psa 102:26 proves that early under the Old Testament the dissolution of the present earth and heavens was expected (compare Gen 8:22). Enoch before Job had implied that the “saints shall live again” (Jud 1:14; Heb 11:13-16). Even if, by this phrase, Job meant “never” (Psa 89:29) in his gloomier state of feelings, yet the Holy Ghost has made him unconsciously (1Pe 1:11, 1Pe 1:12) use language expressing the truth, that the resurrection is to be preceded by the dissolution of the heavens. In Job 14:13-15 he plainly passes to brighter hopes of a world to come.