Hiob 34:15

15 so würde alles Fleisch miteinander vergehen, und der Mensch würde wieder zu Staub werden.

Hiob 34:15 Meaning and Commentary

Job 34:15

All flesh shall perish together
Not one by one, or one after another, as they generally do, but all together; as when the flood swept away the world of the ungodly. "All flesh" signifies all men, and their bodies of flesh particularly, which are weak, frail, and mortal; and if God gathers or takes out the spirit from them, they die immediately, which is meant by perishing, as in ( Ecclesiastes 7:15 ) ( Isaiah 57:1 ) ;

and man shall turn again unto dust;
from whence he came, as the body does at death; when those earthly tabernacles of the bodies of men, which have their foundation in the dust, are dissolved and sink into it. Now though this is the case of particular persons, one after another, yet it is not a general case, as it would be if God was to exert his power, as he might without any charge of injustice: and this shows the merciful kindness of God to man, so far is he from doing any thing injurious or unjust.

Hiob 34:15 In-Context

13 Wer hat, was auf Erden ist, verordnet, und wer hat den ganzen Erdboden gesetzt?

14 So er nun an sich dächte, seinen Geist und Odem an sich zöge,

15 so würde alles Fleisch miteinander vergehen, und der Mensch würde wieder zu Staub werden.

16 Hast du nun Verstand, so höre das und merke auf die Stimme meiner Reden.

17 Kann auch, der das Recht haßt regieren? Oder willst du den, der gerecht und mächtig ist, verdammen?