Job 14:5

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,

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In The King James Version

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

In Context

4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

6look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

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Cross References

Job 7:1Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

Job 14:14If a man dies, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.

Job 21:21For what does he care for his house after him when the number of his months is cut off?

Psalms 39:4LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is. Let me know how frail I am.

Psalms 104:29Thou hide thy face, they are troubled. Thou take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor has he power over the day of death. And there is no discharge in war. Neither shall wickedness deliver him who is given to it.

Matthew Henry on Job 14:2-7

Brevity and Frailty of Human Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. 5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; 6 Turn from him, that he may… Read the whole commentary →

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