Lectionary Calendar
Monday, August 18th, 2025
the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
Attention!
StudyLight.org has pledged to help build churches in Uganda. Help us with that pledge and support pastors in the heart of Africa.
Click here to join the effort!

Read the Bible

Christian Standard Bible ®

Job 14:15

You would call, and I would answer you.You would long for the work of your hands.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Dead (People);   Faith;   Resurrection;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Job;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Decrees of God;   Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Providence;   Redeemer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Resurrection of the Dead;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Death;   Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings);   Job, Book of;   Resurrection;   Sheol;   Wisdom;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.
King James Version
Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
English Standard Version
You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.
New Century Version
You will call, and I will answer you; you will desire the creature your hands have made.
New English Translation
You will call and I—I will answer you; you will long for the creature you have made.
Amplified Bible
"[Then] You will call, and I will answer You; You will long for [me] the work of Your hands.
New American Standard Bible
"You will call, and I will answer You; You will long for the work of Your hands.
World English Bible
You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt call me, and I shall answere thee: thou louest the worke of thine own hands.
Legacy Standard Bible
You will call, and I will answer You;You will long for the work of Your hands.
Berean Standard Bible
You will call, and I will answer; You will desire the work of Your hands.
Contemporary English Version
My Creator, you would want me; you would call out, and I would answer.
Complete Jewish Bible
You will call, and I will answer you; you will long to see what you made again.
Darby Translation
Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest have a desire after the work of thy hands.
Easy-to-Read Version
God, you would call me, and I would answer you. Then I, the one you made, would be important to you.
George Lamsa Translation
If thou wouldst call me, I would answer thee; thou wilt think of the work of thy hands.
Good News Translation
Then you will call, and I will answer, and you will be pleased with me, your creature.
Lexham English Bible
You would call, and I myself would answer you; you would long for the work of your hand.
Literal Translation
You shall call, and I will answer You; You shall long to the work of Your hands.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf thou woldest but call me, I shulde obeie the: only despyse not the worke of thine owne hondes.
American Standard Version
Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee: Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of thy hands.
Bible in Basic English
At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou wouldest call, and I would answer Thee; Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of Thy hands.
King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt haue a desire to the worke of thine hands.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt call [me] and I shall aunswere thee, despise not thou the worke of thyne owne handes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: but do not thou reject the work of thine hands.
English Revised Version
Thou shouldest call, and I would answer thee: thou wouldest have a desire to the work of thine hands.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt clepe me, and Y schal answere thee; thou schalt dresse the riyt half, `that is, blis, to the werk of thin hondis.
Update Bible Version
You would call, and I would answer you: You would have a desire to the work of your hands.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thy hands.
New King James Version
You shall call, and I will answer You; You shall desire the work of Your hands.
New Living Translation
You would call and I would answer, and you would yearn for me, your handiwork.
New Life Bible
You will call and I will answer You. You will wait for the work of Your hands.
New Revised Standard
You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou shouldst call, and, I, would answer thee, - For the work of thine own hand, thou shouldst long.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.
Revised Standard Version
Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest long for the work of thy hands.
Young's Literal Translation
Thou dost call, and I -- I answer Thee; To the work of Thy hands Thou hast desire.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You will call, and I will answer You; You will long for the work of Your hands.

Contextual Overview

7There is hope for a tree:If it is cut down, it will sprout again,and its shoots will not die. 8If its roots grow old in the groundand its stump starts to die in the soil, 9the scent of water makes it thriveand produce twigs like a sapling. 10But a person dies and fades away;he breathes his last—where is he? 11As water disappears from a lakeand a river becomes parched and dry, 12so people lie down never to rise again.They will not wake up until the heavens are no more;they will not stir from their sleep. 13If only you would hide me in Sheoland conceal me until your anger passes.If only you would appoint a time for meand then remember me. 14When a person dies, will he come back to life?If so, I would wait all the days of my struggleuntil my relief comes. 15You would call, and I would answer you.You would long for the work of your hands.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shalt call: Job 13:22, Psalms 50:4, Psalms 50:5, 1 Thessalonians 4:17, 1 John 2:28

thou wilt have: Job 7:21, Job 10:3, Job 10:8, Psalms 138:8, 1 Peter 4:19

Reciprocal: Psalms 16:9 - my flesh Song of Solomon 7:10 - his

Cross-References

Genesis 14:2
waged war against King Bera of Sodom, King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, and King Shemeber of Zeboiim, as well as the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
Genesis 14:3
All of these came as allies to the Siddim Valley (that is, the Dead Sea).
Deuteronomy 15:2
This is how to cancel debt: Every creditor is to cancel what he has lent his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the Lord’s release of debts has been proclaimed.
1 Kings 15:18
So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the treasuries of the royal palace and gave it to his servants. Then King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon son of Hezion king of Aram who lived in Damascus, saying,
Psalms 112:5
Good will come to the one who lends generouslyand conducts his business fairly.
Acts 9:2
and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women who belonged to the Way, he might bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shall call, and I will answer thee,.... Either at death, when the soul of than is required of him, and he is summoned out of time into eternity, and has sometimes previous notice of it; though not by a prophet, or express messenger from the Lord, as Hezekiah had, yet by some disease and distemper or another, which has a voice, a call in it to expect a remove shortly; and a good man that is prepared for it, he answers to this call readily and cheerfully; death is no king of terrors to him, he is not reluctant to it, yea, desirous of it; entreats his dismission in peace, and even longs for it, and rejoices and triumphs in the views of it: or else at the resurrection, when Christ shall call to the dead, as he did to Lazarus, and say, Come forth; and when they shall hear his voice, even the voice of the archangel, and shall answer to it, and come forth out of their graves, the sea, death, and the grave, being obliged to deliver up the dead that are therein; though some think this refers to God's call unto him in a judicial way, and his answers to it by way of defence, as in

Job 13:22; but the other sense seems more agreeable to the context:

thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands; meaning his body, which is the workmanship of God, and a curious piece of workmanship it is, wonderfully and fearfully made, Psalms 139:14, and curiously wrought; and though it may seem to be marred and spoiled by death, yet God will have a desire to the restoration of it at the resurrection to a better condition; even the bodies of his people, and that because they are vessels chosen by him, given to his Son, redeemed by his blood, united to his person, and sanctified by his Spirit, whose temples they are, and in whom he dwells: wherefore upon these considerations it may be reasonably supposed that Father, Son, and Spirit, have a desire to the resurrection of the bodies of the saints, and in which they will have a concern; and from which it may be concluded it will be certainly effected, since God is a rock, and his work is perfect, or will be, both upon the bodies and souls of his people; and the work of sanctification will not be properly completed on them until their vile bodies are changed, and made like to the glorious body of Christ; which must be very desirable to him, who has such a special love for them, and delight in them. Some render the words with an interrogation, "wilt thou desire [to destroy] the work of thine hands" e? surely thou wilt not; or, as Ben Gersom,

"is it fit that thou shouldest desire to destroy the work of thine hands?''

surely it is not becoming, it cannot be thought that thou wilt do it; but the former sense is best.

e תכסף "perdere desiderabis?" Pagninus, Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee - This is language taken from courts of justice. It refers, probably, not to a future time, but to the present. “Call thou now, and I will respond.” It expresses a desire to come at once to trial; to have the matter adjusted before he should leave the world. He could not bear the idea of going out of the world under the imputations which were lying on him, and he asked for an opportunity to vindicate himself before his Maker; compare the notes at Job 9:16.

Thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands - To me, one of thy creatures. This should, with more propriety, be rendered in the imperative, “do thou have a desire.” It is the expression of an earnest wish that God would show an interest in him as one of his creatures, and would bring the matter to a speedy issue. The word here rendered, “have a desire” (תכסף tı̂kâsaph), means literally to be or become “pale” (from כסף keseph), “silver,” so called from its paleness, like the Greek ἄργυρος arguros from ἀγρός agros, white); and then the verb means to pine or long after anything, so as to become pale.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 14:15. Thou shalt call — Thou shalt say There shall be time no longer: Awake, ye dead! and come to judgment!

And I will answer thee — My dissolved frame shall be united at thy call; and body and soul shall be rejoined.

Thou wilt have a desire — תכסף tichsoph, "Thou wilt pant with desire;" or, "Thou wilt yearn over the work of thy hands." God has subjected the creature to vanity, in hope; having determined the resurrection. Man is one of the noblest works of God. He has exhibited him as a master-piece of his creative skill, power, and goodness. Nothing less than the strongest call upon justice could have induced him thus to destroy the work of his hands. No wonder that he has an earnest desire towards it; and that although man dies, and is as water spilt upon the ground that cannot be gathered up again; yet doth he devise means that his banished be not expelled from him. Even God is represented as earnestly longing for the ultimate reviviscence of the sleeping dust. He cannot, he will not, forget the work of his hands.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile