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Job 14:20
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You completely overpower him, and he passes on;you change his appearance and send him away.
You forever prevail against him, and he passes; You change his face, and send him away.
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
You prevail forever against him, and he passes; you change his countenance, and send him away.
You defeat people forever, and they are gone; you change their appearance and send them away.
You overpower him once for all, and he departs; you change his appearance and send him away.
"You prevail forever against him and overpower him, and he passes on; You change his appearance and send him away [from the presence of the living].
"You forever overpower him and he departs; You change his appearance and send him away.
You forever prevail against him, and he passes; You change his face, and send him away.
Thou preuailest alway against him, so that he passeth away: he changeth his face when thou castest him away.
You forever overpower him and he goes away;You alter his appearance and send him away.
You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.
You overpower him, and he passes on; you change his appearance and send him away.
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth away; thou changest his countenance, and dismissest him.
You defeat them completely and then they are gone. You change the way they look and send them away forever to the place of death.
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passes; thou castest him away with shame on his face.
You overpower us and send us away forever; our faces are twisted in death.
You overpower him forever, and he passes away; you change his countenance, then you send him away.
You overpower him forever, and he goes. You change his face and send him away.
Thou preuaylest agaynst him, so that he passeth awaye: thou chaungest his estate, and puttest him from the.
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Thou preuailest for euer against him, and hee passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Thou preuaylest still against him, so that he passeth away: thou chaungest his estate and puttest him from thee.
Thou drivest him to an end, and he is gone: thou settest thy face against him, and sendest him away;
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Thou madist a man strong a litil, that he schulde passe with outen ende; thou schalt chaunge his face, and schalt sende hym out.
You prevail forever against him, and he passes; You change his countenance, and send him away.
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
You prevail forever against him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.
You always overpower them, and they pass from the scene. You disfigure them in death and send them away.
You have power over him forever, and he leaves. You change what he looks like and send him away.
You prevail forever against them, and they pass away; you change their countenance, and send them away.
Thou dost overpower him utterly, and he departeth, Disfiguring his face, so, hast thou sent him away.
Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passes; thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Thou prevailest [over] him for ever, and he goeth, He is changing his countenance, And Thou sendest him away.
"You forever overpower him and he departs; You change his appearance and send him away.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
prevailest: Ecclesiastes 8:8
changest: Job 14:14, Job 2:12, Lamentations 4:8
Reciprocal: Job 33:21 - His flesh
Cross-References
I ask the Lord my God to bless Shem and make Canaan his slave.
King Chedorlaomer and his allies had ruled these last five kings for twelve years, but in the thirteenth year the kings rebelled and came together in Siddim Valley, which is now covered by the southern part of the Dead Sea.
A year later King Chedorlaomer and his allies attacked and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, and the Emites in Shaveh-Kiriathaim.
They also defeated the Horites in the hill country of Edom, as far as El-Paran, near the desert.
Abram returned after he had defeated King Chedorlaomer and the other kings. Then the king of Sodom went to meet Abram in Shaveh Valley, which is also known as King's Valley.
and said to Abram: "I bless you in the name of God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
"I thank you, Lord God of my master Abraham! You have led me to his relatives and kept your promise to him."
This rock will be your house, and I will give back to you a tenth of everything you give me."
The Lord said: On the first day of the Harvest Festival, you must rest from your work, come together for worship, and bring a sacrifice of new grain.
Also set aside ten percent of your wine and olive oil, and the first-born of every cow, sheep, and goat. Take these to the place where the Lord chooses to be worshiped, and eat them there. This will teach you to always respect the Lord your God.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou prevailest for ever against him,.... God is a more than a match for man, in anything, in everything; there is no contending with him, or standing against him, he is stronger than he, and always prevails; there is no withstanding any disease, and the force of it, when he sends it; it is a messenger and servant of his, it goes at his command, and does what he bids it do; and all the art and power of man cannot resist it, or hinder what God would have done by it; and so death itself is irresistible; what is stronger than death? it is a king that reigns with a despotic power; it reigns irresistibly, victoriously, and triumphantly; it prevails over all men, in all ages, and will do to the end of the world; no man has power over his spirit to retain it one moment, when death comes to separate it from the body: and this prevalence of God by death over men will be for ever; the grave is man's long home, to which he is brought by death, and he will never return from it more, to come again into this world, and be about the business of it as now;
and he passeth; out of the world, and is seen no more in it; death is a going the way of all flesh, a departure out of this life, and to it man never usually returns more; he goes to Hades, to the invisible place, and makes his appearance no more here; see Psalms 37:35;
thou changest his countenance; at death; the forerunners of death will change a man's countenance, pains, and diseases of body; by these God makes man's beauty to consume like the moth; the fear of death will change a man's countenance, as the handwriting on the wall did Belshazzar's, Daniel 5:9; even such who have out-braved death, and pretended to have made a covenant and agreement with it, yet when the king of terrors is presented to them, they are seized with a panic, their hearts ache, and their countenances turn pale; but oh! what a change is made by death itself, which for this reason is represented as riding on a pale horse; Revelation 6:8; when the rosy florid looks of man are gone, his comeliness turned into corruption, his countenance pale and meagre, his eyes hollow and sunk, his nose sharp pointed, his ears contracted, and jaws fallen, and his complexion altered, and still more when laid in the grave, and he is turned to rottenness, dust, and worms:
and sendeth him away; giveth him a dismission from this world; sendeth him out of it, from his house, his family, friends, and acquaintance: his birth is expressed often by his coming into the world, and his death by going out of it; for here he has no continuance, no abiding, no rest; and yet there is no departure till God gives him dismission by death, then he sends him away from hence; some in wrath, whom he sends to take up their abode with devils and damned spirits; others in love, to prevent their being involved in evils coming upon the earth, and to be in better company, with God and Christ, with angels, and the spirits of just men made perfect: Maimonides interprets this of Adam r, who, when he changed the object of his countenance, and looked on the forbidden fruit, was sent out of paradise.
r Moreh Nevochim, par. 1. c. 2. p. 5.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thou prevailest forever against him - Thou dost always show that thou art stronger than he is. He never shows that he is able to contend with God.
And he passeth - He cannot stand before thee, but is vanquished, and passes off the stage of being.
Thou changest his countenance - Possibly the allusion is to the change produced by death. The countenance that glowed with health and was flushed with beauty and hope - blooming as the rose - is made pale as the lily under the hand of God. What an affecting exhibition of the power of God!
And sendest him away - This language seems to be that of expectation that man would still live though he was sent away; but all his hopes on earth were blasted, and he went away from his friends and possessions to return no more.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 14:20. Thou prevailest for ever against him — It is impossible for him to withstand thee: every stroke of thine brings him down.
Thou changest his countenance — Probably an allusion to the custom of covering the face, when the person was condemned, and sending him away to execution. See the case of Haman, in the note on Esther, Esther 7:8.
