Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 14:15

15. Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee : thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands .

I trust there is a time coming when thou wiltst grant me the mercy which now thou deniest me, to wit, a favourable hearing, when thou wiltst call to me to speak for my self, and I shall answer thee; which I know will be to thy Satisfaction and my Comfort. Compare this with Chap. 13. 22. where the same words are used in this same Sense. Or, thou shalt call me out of the Grave of my Calamities, and I shall answer thee, and say, Here I am, raised out of the Pit in which I was buried by thy powerful and gracious Command.

i. e. To me who am thy Workmanship in divers respects, from whom thou now seemest to have an aversion and abhorrency, but I doubt not thou wiltst have a desire, i. e. shew thy Affection or Good-will to me; or a desire to look upon me, and to deliver me. Nor is it strange that Iob, who lately was upon the brink of despair, doth now breath out words of Hope, such Ebbings and Flowings being usual, both with Iob elsewhere, as Ch. 13. 15, 16. and with David frequently in the Psalms, and with others of God's People.

Marginal references: Chap. 40. 3.