all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
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all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
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All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
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All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return unto dust.
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Passages linked to Job 34:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 3:19 You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
- Ecclesiastes 12:7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- Isaiah 57:16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.
- Job 9:22 “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
- Job 10:9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
- Job 30:23 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
- Psalms 90:3-10 You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.” For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night. You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass. In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry. For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh. The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
- Isaiah 27:4 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 34:15 All flesh shall perish together, and man…
Job 34:15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
Ver. 15. All flesh shall perish together] i.e. All men, called here "All flesh," as, Mar 16:16, they are called every creature, a little world. If God command it to be so they shall all breathe out together.
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And man shall turn to his dust again] The body to the dust, whence it was taken, but the spirit to God, who gave it. Ecc 12:7
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain All flesh, i.e. every man, who is called flesh,…
All flesh, i.e. every man, who is called flesh, Gen 6:3,17; Isa 40:6.
Together, or, alike, without any exception, be they great or mean, wise or foolish, good or bad; if God design to destroy them, they cannot withstand his power, but must needs perish by his stroke. The design of this and the foregoing verse is the same with that of Job 34:13, See Poole "Job 34:13", namely, to declare God’s absolute and uncontrollable sovereignty over all men, to dispose of them either to life or to death, as it pleaseth him, and consequently to show that Job had cause to be thankful to God, who had continued his life so long to him, which he might have taken away as soon as ever he had given it, and had no cause to complain of him, or to tax him with injustice for afflicting him, as he did.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain If now thou hast understanding, hear this,.... Not as…
If now thou hast understanding, hear this,.... Not as calling his understanding in question, as if he, had none; for Job was a very understanding man; he had not lost his natural understanding by his afflictions, see Job 6:13; nor was he without an understanding of divine things, as his speeches and answers show; but rather it is taken for granted that he was a man of understanding: "if" or "seeing" thou hast understanding, art a man of knowledge and intelligence, therefore hearken and attend to what has been said or about to be said; though, as some Jewish interpreters (a) observe, the word is not a noun, but a verb, and is imperative, "understand thou now, hear this"; and then the sense is, "if" things are so as before related, Job 34:13; then now understand this, take it into thy heart and mind, and well weigh and consider it:
hearken to the voice of my words; either the preceding or following ones.
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(a) Jarchi, Bar Tzemach, in loc. so Cocceius, Schmidt, and Schultens.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain All - The design of this and the foregoing…
All - The design of this and the foregoing verse is the same with that of ver. 13, namely, to declare God's absolute and uncontrollable sovereignty over all men.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain All flesh shall perish together - If God chose,…
All flesh shall perish together - If God chose, he would have a right to cut down the whole race. How then shall people complain of the loss of health, comforts, and friends, and presume to arraign God as if he were unjust?
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain All flesh shall perish together. (comp. Psa_104:29) Without God"s…
All flesh shall perish together. (comp. Psa_104:29) Without God"s sustaining hand, all creatures would fall back into nothingness. And man shall turn again unto dust, Either Elihu refers here to Gen_3:19, or else he has a traditional knowledge of man"s origin, handed down from a remote antiquity, which is in entire conformity with the Hebrew belief.
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