Job 14:1
Man, born of woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 47:9He responded, “The days of my sojourn are one hundred and thirty years, few and unworthy, and they do not reach even to the days of the sojourning of my fathers.”
Job 5:7Man is born to labor, and the bird to fly.
Job 7:6My days have passed by more quickly than threads are cut by a weaver, and they have been consumed without any hope.
Job 9:25My days have been swifter than a messenger; they have fled and have not seen goodness.
Job 25:4Is it right for man to compare himself to God, or to appear pure though he is born of woman?
Psalms 39:5Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has no respect for vanities and absurd falsehoods.
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 →