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Ayub 14:10

Tetapi bila manusia mati, maka tidak berdayalah ia, bila orang binasa, di manakah ia?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   Readings, Select;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dead, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Decrees of God;   Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ghost;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings);   Ghost;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi bila manusia mati, maka tidak berdayalah ia, bila orang binasa, di manakah ia?
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi apabila mati manusia, maka terhantarlah ia dengan tiada berdaya lagi, apabila manusia putus nyawa, di manakah ia?

Contextual Overview

7 For if a tree be cut downe, there is some hope yet that it wyll sproute and shoote foorth the braunches againe. 8 Though the roote of it be waxen olde, and the stocke thereof be dead in the grounde: 9 Yet when it getteth the sent of water, it wyll budde and bring foorth bowes, lyke as a tree that is planted. 10 But as for man, when he is dead, perished, and consumed away, what becommeth of him? 11 As the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp: 12 So man after he is asleepe ryseth not, he shall not wake tyll the heauens be no more, nor rise out of his sleepe. 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, & keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past, and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me. 14 May a dead man lyue againe? All the dayes of my lyfe wyll I wayte still, till my chaunging shall come. 15 Thou shalt call [me] and I shall aunswere thee, despise not thou the worke of thyne owne handes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wasteth away: Heb. is weakened, or, cut off

man: Job 3:11, Job 10:18, Job 11:20, Job 17:13-16, Genesis 49:33, Matthew 27:50, Acts 5:10

where is he: Job 14:12, Job 7:7-10, Job 19:26, Proverbs 14:32, Luke 16:22, Luke 16:23

Reciprocal: Job 7:9 - he Job 10:21 - I go whence Job 16:22 - whence Job 20:7 - shall say Job 27:19 - he is not Psalms 37:10 - wicked Psalms 39:13 - be no Psalms 90:10 - for Psalms 103:16 - it is gone Psalms 146:4 - His breath Ecclesiastes 3:19 - as the Ecclesiastes 11:8 - yet Zechariah 1:5 - General Matthew 2:18 - would 1 Corinthians 15:43 - weakness

Cross-References

Genesis 11:3
And one sayd to another: Come, let vs prepare brycke, and burne them in the fire. And they had brycke for stones, and slyme had they in steade of morter.
Genesis 19:17
And when he had brought them out, he sayde: Saue thy selfe, and loke not behynde thee, neither tary thou in all this playne [countrey] Saue thy selfe in the mountaine, lest thou perishe.
Genesis 19:30
And Lot departed out of Soar, and dwelled in the mountayne with his two daughters: for he feared to tary in Soar, but dwelled in a caue, he and his two daughters.
Joshua 8:24
And when Israel had made an ende of slayeng all the inhabitantes of Ai in the fielde of the wildernesse where they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sworde, vntill they were wasted, all the Israelites returned vnto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sworde.
Psalms 83:10
Whiche perished at Ein Dor: and became as the doung of the earth.
Isaiah 24:18
It wyll come to passe, that whosoeuer escapeth the fearefull noyse, shall fall into the pit, and he that commeth vp out of the pit, shalbe taken with the snare: for the windowes from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth are moued.
Jeremiah 48:44
Whoso escapeth the feare, shall fall into the pit, and whoso getteth out of the pit, shalbe taken in the snare: for I will bryng a yere of visitation vpon Moab, saith the Lorde.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But man dieth, and wasteth away,.... All men, every man, "Geber", the mighty man, the strong man; some die in their full strength; the wise man, notwithstanding all his wisdom and knowledge, and even skill in the art of medicine; the rich man, with all his riches, with which he cannot bribe death, nor keep it off; the great and the honourable, emperors, kings, princes, nobles, all die, and their honour is laid in the dust; yea, good men die, though Christ has died for them; even those that are the most useful and beneficial to men, the prophets of the Lord, and the ministers of his word; and it is no wonder that wicked men should die, though they put the evil day far from them, make an agreement with death, or bid it defiance, their wickedness shall not deliver from it; all men have sinned, and death passes on them, it is appointed for them to die; not their souls, which are immortal, but their bodies, which return to dust, and are only the mortal part; death is a disunion or separation of soul and body: and now when this is made, the body "wasteth away" in the grave, and becomes rottenness, dust, and worms, and does not by the strength of nature spring up again, as a tree does; though some understand, by an inversion of the phrases, a wasting before death through diseases, as if the words were to be read, "but man wasteth away and dieth" z; he is enervated by sickness, his strength is weakened in the way, and when he dies there is none left in him; he is cut off a, as some choose to render it, or cut down as a tree is; but then there is no force or natural strength in him to rise again, as in a tree:

yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where [is] he? not in the same place he was; not in his house and habitation where he lived; nor in his family, and among his friends, with whom he conversed, nor in the world, and on the earth where he did business; he is indeed somewhere, but where is he? his body is in the grave; his soul, where is that? if a good man, it is in the presence of God, where is fulness of joy; it is with Christ, which is far better than to be here; it is with the spirits of just men made perfect; it is in Abraham's bosom, feasting with him and other saints; it is in heaven, in paradise, in a state of endless joy and happiness: if a wicked man, his soul is in hell, in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, with the devil and his angels, and other damned spirits; in a prison, from whence there is no release, and in the uttermost misery and distress, banished from the divine Presence, and under a continual sense of the wrath of God.

z So the Tigurine version, Vatablus, and some in Drusius; and some Hebrews in Ramban and Bar Tzemach. a ויחלש "exciditur", Beza, Piscator, Mercerus; so Kimchi & Ben Gersom.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But man dieth and wasteth away - Margin, “Is weakened, or cut off.” The Hebrew word (חלשׁ châlash) means to overthrow, prostrate, discomfit; and hence, to be weak, frail, or waste away. The Septuagint renders it Ἀνὴρ δὲ τελευτήσας ᾤχετο Anēr de teleutēsas ōcheto - “man dying goes away.” Herder renders it,” his power is gone.” The idea is, he entirely vanishes. He leaves nothing to sprout up again. There is no germ; no shoot; no living root; no seminal principle. Of course, this refers wholly to his living again on the earth, and not to the question about his future existence. That is a different inquiry. The main idea with Job here is, that when man dies there is no germinating principle, as there is in a tree that is cut down. Of the truth of this there can be no doubt; and this comparison of man with the vegetable world, must have early occurred to mankind, and hence, led to the inquiry whether he would not live in a future state. Other flyings that are cut down, spring up again and live. But man is cut down, and does not spring up again. Will he not be likely, therefore, to have an existence in some future state, and to spring up and flourish there? “The Romans,” says Rosenmuller, “made those trees to be the symbol of death, which, being cut down, do not live again, or from whose roots no germs arise, as the pine and cypress, which were planted in burial-places, or were accustomed to be placed at the doors of the houses of the dead.”

Man giveth up the ghost - Expires, or dies. This is all that the word (גוע gâva‛) means. The notion of giving up the spirit or the ghost - an idea not improper in itself - is not found in the Hebrew word, nor is it in the corresponding Greek word in the New Testament; compare Acts 5:10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 14:10. But man dieth — No human being ever can spring from the dead body of man; that wasteth away, corrupts, and is dissolved; for the man dies; and when he breathes out his last breath, and his body is reduced to dust, then, where is he? There is a beautiful verse in the Persian poet Khosroo, that is not unlike this saying of Job: -

[Persic]

[Persic]

[Persic]

[Persic]

"I went towards the burying ground, and wept

To think of the departure of friends which

were captives to death;

I said, Where are they! and Fate

Gave back this answer by Echo, Where are they?

Thus paraphrased by a learned friend: -

Beneath the cypress' solemn shade,

As on surrounding tombs I gazed,

I wept, and thought of friends there laid,

Whose hearts with warmest love had blazed.

Where are those friends my heart doth lack,

Whose words, in grief, gave peace? Ah, where?

And Fate, by Echo, gave me back

This short but just reply, Ah, where?


 
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