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Job_14:15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
Ver. 15. Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee] At the resurrection of the just thou shalt call me out of the grave by thine all powerful voice, uttered by that archangel, with the trump of God, 1Th_4:16 1Co_15:52 Psa_50:3-4, and thou shalt not need to call twice; for as I shall not need then to fear (as the hypocrites will) to show my face, so I will readily answer, Here I am; yea (as that dying saint did so), I will say, I come, I come, I come. I will even leap out of the grave to obey thine orders; and I doubt not but, to draw me out of that dark prison, thou wilt lend me that hand of thine whereof I have the honour to be the workmanship.
Thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands] I know that thou thyself (for the love thou bearest me, of thy goodness, who am thy creature, and on whom thou hast shown favour, and reprinted thine image) wilt long after the consummation of my happiness; for then I shall be like unto thee (more like than ever), for I shall see thee as thou art, and appear with thee in glory, Col_3:4, being next unto thee, Luk_22:30; yea, one with thee, Joh_17:21, and so above the most glorious angels, Heb_1:14. The King shall greatly desire my beauty, Psa_45:11, and rejoice over me, as the bridegroom doth over his bride, Isa_62:5; Isa_10:3. The word here rendered thou wilt have a desire signifieth thou wilt desire as men do after silver. The Lord seemed to deal by Job as men do by dross, to put him away as wicked, Psa_119:119; nevertheless, he believed that he would look upon him as silver: and although he now crushed him together, and brake him to pieces, as the silversmith doth an old piece of plate which he means to melt; yet that he would in the grave, as in a furnace, refine him, and at the resurrection bring him out of a new fashion. Lo, this is the right logic of faith, to make conclusions of life in death, and of light in darkness, to gather one contrary out of another.