Job meditates on the brevity and frailty of human life, which springs up like a flower and withers, and contrasts it with a tree that can sprout again from a stump. In his grief he dares to voice a fragile hope for something beyond the grave: “If a man dies, shall he live again?”, longing that God might hide him in Sheol and then remember him, a hope that reaches toward resurrection.
Job study chapter
Job 14
patriarchal eraJob meditates on the brevity of life and dares to hope for life beyond death.
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