Job 14:20 - Exposition

Thou prevailset for ever against him, and he passsth ; rather, thou puttest forth thy power against him perpetually ; i.e. thou art continually oppressing him, and crushing him by afflictions; and the consequence is that "he passes;" i.e. "he passes away, disappears, ceases to be ." Thou changest his countenance . "Alterest," i.e , "its expression from cheerfulness to sadness, and its complexion from the hue of health to the sickly pallor of disease; settest the stamp of death upon it, and further dis-figurest it in the dreadful process of decay." And sendest him away . That is to say, "Thou removest him from the earth, dismissest him to Sheol, where thenceforth he remains?'