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Job 14:18

Job 14:18
And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought,.... Job here returns to his former subject of the irreparable state of man at death, which he illustrates by various other similes, as before; and…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

And surely the mountain falling - Margin, “Fadeth.” The sense of this is, that the hope of man in regard to living again, must certainly fail - as a mountain falls and does not rise again; as the rock…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 14:16-22

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 14:18-22

Under this severe treatment man must perish. For even the greatest and the firmest things in nature, and those most capable of resistance, are worn down by the influence of constant forces, and how…