Job 14:5

If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

Bible in Basic English

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

4If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

6Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.

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Cross References

Job 7:1Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

Job 14:14If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

Job 21:21For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?

Psalms 39:4\39:3\My heart was burning in my breast; while I was deep in thought the fire was lighted; then I said with my tongue,

Psalms 104:29If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

Ecclesiastes 8:8No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.

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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