Job 14:1
As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.
Job 5:7But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.
Job 7:6My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
Job 9:25My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.
Job 25:4How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?
Psalms 39:5\39:4\Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.
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 →