Job 14:10
Truly, when a man dies, and has been left unprotected, and has decayed, I ask you where is he?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
In Context
9at the scent of water, it will sprout and bring forth leaves, as when it had first been planted.
11It is as if the waters had receded from the sea and an emptied river had dried up;
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are sojourners and new arrivals before you, as all our fathers were. Our days upon the earth are like a shadow, and there is no delay.
Job 7:7Remember that my life is wind, and my eye will not return to see good things.
Job 7:21Why do you not steal away my sin, and why do you not sweep away my iniquity? Behold, now I will sleep in the dust, and if you seek me in the morning, I will not remain.
Job 11:20But the eyes of the impious will fade away, and the path to escape will perish before them, for the abomination of the soul is their hope.
Job 17:13If I should wait, the underworld is my house, and in darkness I have spread out my bed.
Job 20:7in the end, he will be destroyed like a trash heap, and those who had seen him will 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 →