Job 14:10
But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
In Context
9yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.
11[As] the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes away and dries up,
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Job 7:7O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
Job 7:21And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lay down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee. And their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.
Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Job 20:7yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Matthew Henry on Job 14:8-16
Death Anticipated. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; 9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: 12 So man lieth down, and… Read the whole commentary →