Job 14:6

Turn from him, that he may rest,.... From this short lived afflicted man, whose days are limited, and will soon be at an end, meaning himself; not that he desires he would withdraw his gracious…

Turn from him - - שׁעה shâ‛âh. Look away from; or turn away the eyes; Isa 22:4. Job had represented the Lord as looking intently upon him, and narrowly watching all his ways. He now asks him that he…

We are here led to think,

I. Of the original of human life. God is indeed its great original, for he breathed into man the breath of life and in him we live; but we date it from our birth, and thence…

turn from him lit. look away from him, cf. ch. Job 7:19; Job 10:20. turn thy keen scrutiny away from him.

may rest i. e. have peace, from unwonted affliction.

till he shall accomplish Or, so that he…