Job 14:1, Psa 39:11, Hos 5:12 | JFB | e4.org | 1. woman —feeble, and in the East looked down upon ( ). Man being born of one so frail must be frail himself ( ). few days — ( ). Literally, "short of days." Man is the reverse of full of days and short of trouble.

‏ Job 14:1

1. woman—feeble, and in the East looked down upon (Ge 2:21). Man being born of one so frail must be frail himself (Mt 11:11).

few days— (Ge 47:9; Ps 90:10). Literally, "short of days." Man is the reverse of full of days and short of trouble.

‏ Psalms 39:11

11. From his own case, he argues to that of all, that the destruction of man's enjoyments is ascribable to sin.

‏ Hosea 5:12

12. as a moth—consuming a garment (Job 13:28; Ps 39:11; Isa 50:9).

Judah . . . rottenness—Ephraim, or the ten tribes, are as a garment eaten by the moth; Judah as the body itself consumed by rottenness (Pr 12:4). Perhaps alluding to the superiority of the latter in having the house of David, and the temple, the religious center of the nation [GROTIUS]. As in Ho 5:13, 14, the violence of the calamity is prefigured by the "wound" which "a lion" inflicts, so here its long protracted duration, and the certainty and completeness of the destruction from small unforeseen beginnings, by the images of a slowly but surely consuming moth and rottenness.