Job 14:14, Dan 10:1 | JFB | e4.org | 14. shall he live? —The answer implied is, There is a hope that he shall, though not in the present order of life, as is shown by the words following. Job had denied ( ) that man shall live again in this present world. But hoping for a "set time," when God shall remember and raise him out of the hiding-place of the grave ( ), he declares himself willing to "wait all the days of his appointed time" of continuance in the grave, however long and hard that may be. appointed time —literally, "warfare, hard service"; imlying the hardship of being shut out from the realms of life, light, and God for the time he shall be in the grave ( ). change —my release, as a soldier at his post released from duty by the relieving guard (see on ) [UMBREIT and GESENIUS ], but elsewhere GESENIUS explains it, "renovation," as of plants in spring ( ), but this does not accord so well with the metaphor in "appointed time" or "warfare."

‏ Job 14:14

14. shall he live?—The answer implied is, There is a hope that he shall, though not in the present order of life, as is shown by the words following. Job had denied (Job 14:10-12) that man shall live again in this present world. But hoping for a "set time," when God shall remember and raise him out of the hiding-place of the grave (Job 14:13), he declares himself willing to "wait all the days of his appointed time" of continuance in the grave, however long and hard that may be.

appointed time—literally, "warfare, hard service"; imlying the hardship of being shut out from the realms of life, light, and God for the time he shall be in the grave (Job 7:1).

change—my release, as a soldier at his post released from duty by the relieving guard (see on Job 10:17) [UMBREIT and GESENIUS], but elsewhere GESENIUS explains it, "renovation," as of plants in spring (Job 14:7), but this does not accord so well with the metaphor in "appointed time" or "warfare."

‏ Daniel 10:1

1. third year of Cyrus—two years after Cyrus' decree for the restoration of the Jews had gone forth, in accordance with Daniel's prayer in Da 9:3-19. This vision gives not merely general outlines, or symbols, but minute details of the future, in short, anticipative history. It is the expansion of the vision in Da 8:1-14. That which then "none understood," he says here, "he understood"; the messenger being sent to him for this (Da 10:11, 14), to make him understand it. Probably Daniel was no longer in office at court; for in Da 1:21, it is said, "Daniel continued even unto the first year of King Cyrus"; not that he died then. See on Da 1:21.

but the time appointed was long—rather, "it (that is, the prophecy) referred to great calamity" [MAURER]; or, "long and calamitous warfare" [GESENIUS]. Literally, "host going to war"; hence, warfare, calamity.