Job 14:1
Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
In Context
2He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my father
Job 5:7but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 9:25Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good,
Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
Psalms 39:5Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.
Matthew Henry on Job 14:1
Job had turned from speaking to his friends, finding it to no purpose to reason with them, and here he goes on to speak to God and himself. He had reminded his friends of their frailty and mortality ( ch. xiii. 12 ); here he reminds himself of his own, and pleads it with God for some mitigation of his miseries. We have here an account, I. Of man's life, that it is, 1. Short, ver. 1 . 2. Sorrowful, ver. 1 . 3. Sinful, ver. 4 . 4. Stinted, ver. 5 , 14 . II. Of man's death, that it puts a final period to our present… Read the whole commentary →