Job 14:10
But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
In Context
9Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.
11The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
Job 7:7O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.
Job 7:21And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
Job 11:20But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.
Job 17:13If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
Job 20:7Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him 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 →