Job 14:11 Meaning and Explanation
“As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:”
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What Does Job 14:11 Mean?
Job reaches for another image to express how final death feels to him. As a pool can lose its waters and a river can dwindle until its bed lies cracked and dry, so a human life seems to ebb away. The comparison sets up the verse that follows, completing the thought of how mortals lie down.
Job is describing the world as he sees it through tears, where life drains away and does not return on its own. He does not pretend the loss is small. Yet even here he is speaking to God, who once gathered the seas and can fill a dry place again. The God who controls the waters holds also the destiny of those who seem to dry up and vanish.
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What does Job 14:11 mean?
Job pictures human death like waters draining from a sea or a river bed drying to nothing.