14 If someone dies, will they live again? I will wait for my renewal[b] to come. you will long for the creature your hands have made. but not keep track of my sin. you will cover over my sin. so you destroy a person’s hope. you change their countenance and send them away. if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.

Does Job 14:14’s question “If someone dies, will they live again?” indicate uncertainty about resurrection, challenging other parts of the Bible that teach it? Isaiah 65:24: If God answers before people call, why are there countless unanswered prayers and unresolved suffering?

14 If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come. 15 You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made.

14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. 15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

We should daily seek the renewing of the Holy Ghost, and look to heaven as the only place of perfect holiness and happiness. 7-15 Though a tree is cut down, yet, in a moist situation, shoots come forth, and grow up as a newly planted tree. But when man is cut off by death, he is for ever removed from his place in this world.

15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands. 16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? 17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

15 You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made. 16 Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin. 17 My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.

Job 14:14-15 If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come. You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made.... Read verse in New International Version

Job Laments the Finality of Death. 1 “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. 2 Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. 3 Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You? 4 Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

Job 14 is a profound and introspective chapter in the Book of Job, wherein Job himself contemplates the fleeting nature of human life and the inevitability of death. Yet, amidst his lamentations, he also looks beyond his circumstances and towards the hope of life after death. Job begins by acknowledging the shortness and trouble of human life.