Job 14:3
Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
In Context
4If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
Cross References
Job 9:19If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?
Job 13:25Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?
Psalms 8:4\8:3\When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;
Psalms 144:3Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?
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 →