Job 14:15
You will call, and I will answer; You will desire the work of Your hands.
BSB
ASV
Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee: Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of thy hands.
KJV
Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
Ver. 15. Thou shalt call me, and I will answer Thee. We are said to answer anyone, when we do works in turn answerable to his deeds. Thus in that change the Lord 'calls,' and man 'answers,' in that, before the brightness of The Incorrupt, man is shewn forth incorrupt after corruption. For now so long as we are subject to corruption, we do not in any wise 'answer' our Creator, seeing that whereas corruption is far from incorruption, there is no similarity suitable to our answering.
Answer thee - Thou shalt call my soul to thyself: and I will cheerfully answer, Here I am: knowing thou wilt have a desire to the work of thy hands - A love for the soul which thou hast made, and new-made by thy grace.
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:
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 138:8The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me. O LORD, Your loving devotion endures forever— do not abandon the works of Your hands.
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being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me.
The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.
O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.
Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good. His loving devotion endures forever.
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1 Peter 4:19So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should entrust their souls to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.
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Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.
For this reason, even though I suffer as I do, I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have…
For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.