What Does Job 14:15 Mean in the King James?
Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The line goes beyond God answering your call: it says the maker longs for the work of those hands.
THE MEANING
When you call, God answers; the verse holds that exchange as personal and present. The maker also desires the work of God’s own hands, placing you within a longing that begins with God.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that being God’s handiwork means being discarded once made: it places the maker’s own desire on that handiwork.
THE ROOT
תִּכְסֹף
tiksof
GROWS FROM
כָּסַף
kasaph
To long for, to yearn toward.
The word translated “desire” comes from a root of yearning that can also describe hungry eagerness. The verse places that longing in the maker: what God’s hands have made is not merely completed work, but something God still yearns toward.
ALSO GROWS
kasfah: Longed for.
כָּסְפָה
In Psalm 84:2, this form describes the soul longing for the LORD’s courts, showing the root’s direct sense of yearning.
yikhsoph: Yearns eagerly, is greedy for.
יִכְסֹף
In Psalm 17:12, the root describes a lion eager for prey, revealing that this longing can carry fierce appetite.
THE PATTERN
The maker remains engaged with what is made, answering its cry and claiming it as handiwork.
In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.THE THREAD
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.The psalm’s כָּסְפָה (kasfah, “longed”) and Job’s תִּכְסֹף (tiksof, “you long”) grow from כסף (kasaph, “to yearn”). In the psalm the living soul longs toward God; here the longing runs the other way, from the maker toward the work of God’s hands.
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