Albert Barnes Commentary Job 14:15

"Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee: Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of thy hands." — Job 14:15 (ASV)

Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee - This is language taken from courts of justice. It refers, probably, not to a future time, but to the present. “Call you now, and I will respond.” It expresses a desire to come at once to trial; to have the matter adjusted before he should leave the world. He could not bear the idea of going out of the world under the imputations which were lying on him, and he asked for an opportunity to vindicate himself before his Maker; compare the notes at Job 9:16.

Thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands - To me, one of your creatures. This should, with more propriety, be rendered in the imperative, “do you have a desire.” It is the expression of an earnest wish that God would show an interest in him as one of his creatures, and would bring the matter to a speedy issue. The word here rendered, “have a desire” (תכסף tı̂kâsaph), means literally to be or become “pale” (from כסף keseph, “silver,” so called from its paleness, like the Greek ἄργυρος arguros from ἀγρός agros — white); and then the verb means to pine or long after anything, so as to become pale.